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DEDICATION 



MRS. FRANCES SCHULTES. 



IF the dedication of a work be conside?xd as a tribute 
of respect due only to virtue and merit, I shall be jus- 
tified in addressing this to you, and thus giving my 
testimony to those excellencies which have hitherto 
adorned your character. Endowed with a compre- 
hensive and perspicacious mind, enabling you to dis- 
tinguish rectitude from error, you have fulfilled the 
relative duties of consort, parent, and friend, in a 
manner deserving of the warmest panegyric, whilst 
you have preserved your amiable disposition untinc- 
tured by those caprices which so often characterize 

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IV DEDICATION. 

and degrade the female sex. But above all, you have 
endeavoured to cultivate that wisdom which discovers 
the true lustre of intellect, by an exemplary piety, and 
a resignation to the divine will. The experience of 
many years has fully satisfied me, that the same un- 
erring principles will continue to govern your actions ; 
and I encourage the hope that they may be transmit- 
ted, by means of your instruction and example, to our 
only child, convinced as I am, that virtue is the best 
indication of mental excellence, and the surest founda- 
tion of happiness. 



INTRODUCTION 



THE faculty of expressing our sentiments in per- 
spicuous and elegant diction, is so pre-eminent an 
accomplishment, that every candidate for literary 
celebrity exerts his utmost endeavours to acquire it ; 
and although topics may be clearly illustrated, and 
the charms of eloquence displayed, in simple lan- 
guage without the aid of rhetorical ornaments, yet 
it must be admitted that well-chosen comparisons, 
similes, or descriptions, are highly conducive to the 
embellishment of expressions, and add grace and 
dignity to composition. 

If it were possible to establish a criterion in lite- 
rature whereby philological taste might be regu- 
lated, it would be easy to prescribe rules for de- 
ciding at once on literary merit, and awarding its 
just degree of praise : but whilst a diversity of opi- 



INTRODUCTION. 



nion continues to prevail amongst mankind, the 
renown of a writer must necessarily depend more 
upon fortuitous events and the ruling fashion of the 
age, than upon the brilliance of his wit, or the force 
of his genius, as the example of Milton and others 
may serve to prove. The truth of this remark is so 
universally acknowledged, that every aspirant for 
public approbation now endeavours to discover some 
new path which may lead him to distinction, and 
hopes, through the medium of novelty, originality, 
or eccentricity, to gain popular fame. Some authors 
seek reputation by adopting a conciseness of style; 
others court regard by an elaborate amplification of 
their topics ; and a few expect to attract notice by 
a partial revival of obsolete phraseology. Popula- 
rity, however, seems, conformably with the existing 
rules of philology, to be most deservedly due to 
him who, following the light of truth, is enabled to 
convey his ideas with clearness into the minds of 
others, and who can occasionally illustrate his pro- 
positions by apposite comparisons, formed by allu- 
sion to natural and familiar objects of the senses. 

With a view to assist a writer of this description, 
the present volume has been compiled. 



INTRODUCTION. Vll 

In the alphabetical arrangement of the passages, 
(which have been collected verbatim from the re- 
spective authors cited) are shown the coincidences 
of expression which various writers have uncon- 
sciously fallen into, or designedly adopted. The 
classification of the similes under their respective 
heads, has been regulated according to their sub- 
jects and form. Those of a simple form will be 
found first represented, and others more diffusely 
illustrated follow them in succession. And as it 
has been considered unnecessary to incumber any 
of the expressions with a long enumeration of all 
the authors who have used them, the names of 
two only are introduced, the first of which may ge- 
nerally be regarded as the elder authority. It has 
also been thought unnecessary (except in few in- 
stances, where the length of the quotation rendered 
it unavoidable) to distinguish the poetical from 
prosaic extracts, by any peculiar mark or distinct 
metrical collocation of the words in lines. 

In the compilation will be found many proverbial 
similes or axioms, and some idiomatical expressions 
of a quaint nature, which have been introduced 
solely for the purpose of showing the names of the 
authors who have sanctioned them ; but no similes 



Vlll INTRODUCTION. 

have been admitted that can create disgust, or of- 
fend delicacy. 



At the end of the alphabetical collection is an 
nexed a great variety of descriptive passages, which 
it is presumed will, in conjunction with the antece- 
dent compilation, show that the talent displayed by 
our own writers in the art of imagery, or describing 
the operations and appearances of nature, has been 
by no means inferior to the skill of their continental 
cotemporaries, at any period of time since the re- 
vival of letters. 

Poetical composition without imagery attracts but 
little admiration, and although a pleasing descrip- 
tion of natural scenes may be easily composed, it 
oftentimes becomes extremely difficult to invent a 
simile in every respect adapted to illustrate and ag- 
grandize a subject. And perhaps nothing can be 
more mortifying to a writer, after he has published 
(as his own creation) that which he considers to be 
a happy comparison, to discover that the same in- 
cidents, expressed partially, or wholly in the same 
language, had been already given to the world by 
various predecessors. 



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INTRODUCTION. IX 

It cannot be denied that the same train of ideas 
occurring to different writers, may superinduce the 
same forms of expression ; coincidences may there- 
fore take place accidentally, and an author may un- 
deservedly lie under the imputation of plagiarism. 
Where coincidences happen in the productions of 
two writers, the latter necessarily loses the merit of 
invention, and is considered as a mere imitator. 
Hence a test whereby an author may discover 
whether the offspring of his mind be a new cre- 
ation, or an adoption, is desirable. 

Some authors have affected to distinguish com- 
parisons, similes, and similitudes, from each other; 
and a translator of Moliere has made the following 
remark, "We studious folks like a comparison better 
" than a similitude." It is scarcely necessary to 
endeavour to establish a distinction where little or 
no difference can be perceived, or to show that 
the terms " likeness" and " resemblance" are not 
synonymous ; yet for the satisfaction of the reader 
the following passages have been selected as ex- 
amples of the form of expression which may have 
been considered as comprising a similitude. 

" As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that 



X INTRODUCTION. 

" pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own death." 
— Proverbs. 

" Far better is it to form affinity and strictest 
" friendship with a poor man of worth, than him 
" who joins iniquity with wealth." — Euripides. 

" The likeness of those who take other patrons 
" besides God, is as the likeness of the spider, 
" which maketh herself a house, but the weakest of 
" all houses surely is the house of the spider. These 
" similitudes do we propose unto men, but none un- 
" derstand them except the wise." — Koran. 

" Similitudes or likenesses are the images or pic- 
" tures of the things to which they are compared, 
" lively explaining one thing in a far different ob- 
" ject : e.g. As a vessel is known by the sound whe- 
" ther it be whole or broken, so are men proved 
" by their speech whether they be wise or foolish." 
— Wifs Commonwealth. 

To constitute a genuine simile it is requisite that 
the quality or attribute of a precedent subject, 
should be susceptible of comparison with the qua- 
lity or attribute of the subject which immediately 



INTRODUCTION. XI 

follows it, according to the current idiom of speech, 
and agreeably to the rules of logic. Thus the ex- 
pression, "White as snow," has reference to a 
previous subject (raiment for instance); white or 
whiteness is the attribute, and the ellipsis in the 
sentence being supplied, the simile will run thus : 
" Raiment, white as the whiteness of snow ;" or it 
may be thus rendered, " White as snow is white." 
Now it being admitted that the external appear- 
ance of snow represents the highest degree of 
whiteness which the mind can conceive, the com- 
parison of the highest degree of whiteness which 
raiment can exhibit, with the quality of snow, is 
philosophically just, and the aptness of every simile 
may by this mode of examination be readily ascer- 
tained. 

It will thus appear evident, that the terms qua- 
lity and subject, which have been used to express 
the constituents of a simile, not being sufficiently 
explanatory, have caused some to consider that a 
simile implied the illustration of a quality by the 
subject itself, instead of its quality ; not perceiving 
the absurdity of comparing spirit with matter, nor 
understanding that a just simile can only be formed 



Xll INTRODUCTION. 

by a comparison of a certain quality proposed, with 
the attribute or quality of a subject or thing ex- 
pressed. 

Similes of the following description may some- 
times be found : viz. " Pure as sanctity," where the 
subject itself may be considered in an intellectual 
sense, so as to correspond with the antecedent qua- 
lity ; or a personification may be presumed, and the 
affinity ascertained by thus rendering the expres- 
sion, " It is pure as sanctity is pure ;" agreeably to 
the rule before prescribed for showing the analogy 
of the qualities compared. 

Hence a simile may perhaps be defined as a form 
of speech illustrating a proposition by the compa- 
rison of an attribute or quality asserted, with its 
proper correlative. For example, — the expression, 
"The colour of this paper is white," is a proposition, 
and the truth of it may be illustrated by showing 
its resemblance to the colour of some other object ; — 
we may therefore say " The colour of this paper is as 
white as snow," or "It is as white as ivory ;" thereby 
meaning a peculiar quality or attribute of those sub- 
jects, which quality or attribute is the proper cor- 



INTRODUCTION. Xlll 

relative to the quality in the proposition intended 
to be illustrated. 

The reader will now perceive how essentially ne- 
cessary it is that every subject of a simile should 
possess such attributes as will harmonize with the 
qualities proposed. 

Many authors in the exuberance of poetical en- 
thusiasm, have suffered their judgment to be blinded 
by their fancy, and exposed themselves to severe 
criticism, by disregarding the analogy which ought 
to subsist between the implied quality or attribute 
of the subject expressed, and the antecedent qua- 
lity of the thing proposed to be illustrated, in the 
composition of their similes : and they seem not to 
have considered that it is the propriety of the thing 
represented, and not its magnificence, which consti- 
tutes the beauty of a simile; seeing that every simile 
ought to operate on the mind as a clear and obvious 
demonstration of a thing proposed. 

The following examples have been selected from 
a great number which may be found in the works 
of authors otherwise deservedly celebrated for their 
genius, and are offered as a proof of negligent com- 
position and bad taste. 



XIV INTRODUCTION. 

" His heart was light as a sun-beam." 

" His heart was light as sunshine on the deep." 

" Happy as a wave that dances on the sea." 

" As soft in manners, as the silky fur upon the 
bosom of a playing kitten." 

" Sounds, which are soft as Leda's breast." 

" Music, sweet as the tears that the dews of night 
distil." 

" A joy as pure and stainless as the gem that the 
morning finds on the blossom of the rose." 

" Joys, bright as April flowers." 

" The feeling, pure as morning's dew." 

" An empire, which rose like an exhalation." 

In the foregoing instances it is obvious that the 
qualities compared have no just correspondence 
with each other, and they evince an erroneous 
judgment not unlike that of the blind man, who 
thought the colour of scarlet resembled the sound 
of a trumpet. 

A great latitude is allowable to authors in the 



INTRODUCTION. XV 

use of hyperboles, where expressions are not in- 
consistent with the current idiom. Thus we say, 
" Brighter than the sun," " Fairer than whitest 
snow." 

A simile is supposed to be the result of calm me- 
ditation, and it ought not to be introduced into 
composition unless for the sake of illustration or em- 
bellishment. An author, therefore, in forming a si- 
mile should be very circumspect in the choice of his 
images, and should carefully examine their propri- 
ety before he ventures to adopt them ; because on 
the philosophical correctness of his simile he stakes 
his own judgment. 

Wild and obscure phrases unauthorized by our 
idiom ought to be avoided, and juvenile writers 
should be cautioned against the adoption of such 
dulcet expressions as " The violet breath of love is 
purity;" or comparisons like the following : 

" Faint as the echoes of far delight 

" And dreamy and sad as the sighing flight 

" Of distant waterfalls." 

It cannot too often be inculcated, that without 
perspicuity, no proposition can possess energy. 



XVI INTRODUCTION. 

Dr. Johnson once attempted to establish the cur- 
rency of phrases of the above-mentioned descrip- 
tion, and he thought the following metaphorical 
passages irresistibly fascinating : " We may raise 
" in time an artificial fastidiousness, which shall fill 
" the imagination with phantoms of turpitude, show 
tl us the naked skeleton of every delight, and pre- 
" sent us with the pains of pleasure, and the de- 
" formities of beauty." Johnson was his own arche- 
type, and no one has since imitated his " tumour of 
phrase" with any success. 

Milton has observed, that rhyme obliges poets to 
express their thoughts in improper terms, but the 
truth of this observation may be fairly questioned. 
No one at the present day would venture to write 
unintelligibly upon the strength of such an autho- 
rity, since our vernacular tongue is sufficiently co- 
pious to admit of every species of composition, with- 
out danger of obscurity ; except that which may 
arise from ignorance or error : and few writers will 
be found to excel Tillotson and Robertson in prose 3 
or Akenside and Cowper in poetry, either with re- 
spect to purity of language, or gracefulness of style. 

Similes are either simple, or amplified. The ex- 



INTRODUCTION. XVII 

pression " White as snow" is an example of the 
former; and the expressions, "White as falling 
u snow" — "White as the fanned snow bolted by the 
" northern blast twice over," are examples of the 
latter. In the first example the idea of a peculiar 
quality is raised in the mind. In the second, the 
idea of the quality is heightened by the descrip- 
tion of the specific effect or change produced upon 
a sensible object by the operations of nature : and 
it is in proportion to the degree of pleasure which 
such descriptions excite, by a judicious combina- 
tion of appropriate images, that similes possess 
their excellence. 

Care should be taken that similes be not over- 
loaded, for they often lose their intended effect by 
their redundancy. The following may be given as 
an instance of a redundant description : " Brighter 
u than the beams of the clear sun at morning, when 
" he flings his showers of light upon the peach, or 
" plays with the green leaves of June, and strives to 
" dart into some great forest's heart, and scare 
" the sylvan from voluptuous dreams." 

Some of our early writers have afforded us ex- 

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XVlll INTRODUCTION. 

cellent models for imitation in the art of descrip- 
tion ; the works of Spenser and Shakespear abound 
with them. These authors have gained themselves 
a lasting fame, whilst many of their cotemporaries 
have sunk into oblivion ; amongst whom was John 
Tatham, the author of the following simile, a chaste 
and natural representation, which, very probably, 
furnished Milton with the means of composing 
his beautiful exordium to the Fifth Book of Pa- 
radise Lost. " Fair as the eastern morn, when 
" with her summer's robe she decks the plains, and 
" hangs on every bush a liquid pearl." Few si- 
miles of modern times possess this exquisite paint- 
ing, — this true delineation of a scene so often visi- 
ble in a rural morning's walk. 

An author who happens to adopt any remarkable 
expressions used by his predecessors, will gain no 
credit by pleading unconscious plagiarism. A re- 
spectful acknowledgment is due to the past produc- 
tions of genius, whenever their aid is required in 
composition : and although Milton might have been 
induced to borrow without avowal from Euripides, 
because Virgil had taken the same liberty with 
Homer, yet this license of adoption has been long 



INTRODUCTION. XIX 

denied to composers ; and the practice was discoun- 
tenanced by one of our earliest poets, John Lidgate, 
the monk of Bury, who, alluding to Chaucer, says, 

" Wherefore it were but vain, 

Thing said by him, to write it new again." 

It has been already observed, that amongst our 
writers, Spenser and Shakespear claim the first rank 
in literary estimation, for the beauty and propriety 
of their similes and descriptions, and they are espe- 
cially recommended to the notice of the student. 
But amongst all the writings which tend to reple- 
nish and illuminate the human mind with sublime 
ideas the Sacred Volume, " velut inter ignes Luna 
" minores," stands transcendent, and will be found, 
upon a dispassionate investigation, best adapted to 
ennoble our conceptions, as the works of some of 
our best writers who have resorted to that source will 
sufficiently demonstrate. Numerous passages might 
be adduced in support of this opinion ; to which 
might also be added the concurrent testimony of the 
wisest and most learned men of other nations, whose 
productions have enlarged the boundaries of science. 

The introduction of a few examples, however, 
may be allowable on the present occasion. 

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XX INTRODUCTION. 

Longinus, one of the most celebrated critics of 
antiquity, represented Moses as an extraordinary- 
person, because he had conceived a just idea of the 
power of the Deity, and exemplified it in this re- 
markable expression: "God said, Let there be light; 
" and there was light." In this instance we have 
the testimony of a pagan in attestation of the sub- 
limity of a passage occurring in the first page of 
the sacred writings. This however, as will in the 
sequel be shown, was not the only passage which 
deserved the approbation of a writer on the sub- 
lime. 

Longinus has been greatly admired for comparing 
Homer in his decline of life, to the setting sun, 
whose grandeur still remains without the meridian 
heat of his beams : but this comparison, beautiful 
as it confessedly is, must yield to the description 
given of a righteous man, in Ecclesiasticus : " He 
" was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, 
" and as the moon at the full — as the sun shining 
" upon the temple of the Most High, and as a rain- 
" bow giving light in the bright clouds." What 
can possibly exceed the sublimity of sentiment 
demonstrated by this comparison of the glory of a 



INTRODUCTION. XXI 

man's righteousness with the glory of the sun 
shining upon the temple of its own Creator? 

Light, being the purest of all material things, has 
been considered as a fit medium to represent God 
himself: hence we find the expression, " God is 
" light, and in him is no darkness." The sun, as 
the fountain of light, has been the object of adora- 
tion among many nations. In the ancient Jewish 
times, the people of the East worshipped it under 
the names of Baal, Chemosh, and Moloch ; and the 
Sun of Righteousness is a beautiful metaphor, ap- 
plicable to Christ. The Saviour himself, in de- 
scribing the purity of the faithful at the end of the 
world, has recourse to the like figure ; for he says, 
" Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in 
" the kingdom of their Father." A similar passage 
is to be found in the Book of Daniel, "They that 
" be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma- 
"raent; and they that turn many to righteousness, 
" as the stars for ever and ever." 

Saint Paul, finding no object in nature sufficiently 
majestic to place in comparison with the glory of 
Christ, says : " God hath set him at his own right 



XX11 INTRODUCTION. 

" hand in heavenly places, far above all princi- 
" pality and power, and might and dominion, and 
" every name that is named, not only in this 
" world, but in that which is to come." The same 
writer, in discoursing on the subject of eternal bless- 
edness, cites the following passage : " Eye hath not 
" seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the 
" heart of man, the things which God hath prepared 
" for them that love him." 

The circumstance of presuming the impossibility 
of discovering an adequate resemblance in nature, 
in this instance, leads the mind into an agreeable 
contemplation of the works of nature, for the pur- 
pose of endeavouring to find some similitude. 

The creation of light doubtless implies the om- 
nipotence of the Creator : but as to annihilate, de- 
monstrates as much the power of the Deity as to 
create, the following passage in the Book of 
Revelation may be adduced as capable of gene- 
rating in the mind the most exalted sentiments, by 
the awful magnificence of the images represented: 

"And I v saw another mighty angel come down 



INTRODUCTION. XX111 

" from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow 
" was upon his head, and his face was as it were 
" the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. And he set 
" his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on 
" the earth, — and he cried with a loud voice : and 
" when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their 
" voices. And he lifted up his hand to heaven, and 
" sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who 
" created heaven, and the things that therein are, 
" and the earth, and the things that therein are, 
" and the sea, and the things which are therein, 
" that there should be time no longer." 

In contemplating the grandeur of the foregoing 
extract, and comparing it with the following quota- 
tions from the Koran (which may be considered as 
the best examples of its descriptive style), the supe- 
riority of the former will be perceptible. 

"Verily, I swear by the stars which are retrograde, 
" which move swiftly, and which hide themselves ; 
" and by the night when it cometh on, and by the 
" morning when it appeareth, that these are the 
" words of an honourable messenger — By the sun 
" and his rising brightness, by the moon when she 



XXIV INTRODUCTION. 

" followeth him, by the day when it showeth his 
" splendour, by the night when it covereth him with 
i( darkness, by the heaven and him who built it, by 
" the earth and him who spread it forth, by the 
" soul and him who completely formed it, and in- 
" spired iuto the same its faculty of distinguish- 
" ing, and power of choosing, wickedness and pi- 
" ety ; now is he who hath purified the same happy, 
" but he who hath corrupted the same is miserable." 

A very distinguishing beauty is discoverable in 
the common version of the sacred scriptures by the 
adoption of a few monosyllables at the conclusion 
of a sentence, to express the emphasis of a sub- 
ject. The declaration of Nathan to David " Thou 
" art the man," in the celebrated parable; and the 
declaration of the prophet Elijah to the widow 
whose son he had restored to life, " See, thy son 
" lives," are fine instances of climax ; to which 
may be added another striking example in the cir- 
cumstantial description of the miracle performed by 
the prophet Elisha at Shunem, wherein the chief 
virtues and most active passions of the soul are ex- 
emplified in that simplicity of language which so 
eminently distinguishes the sacred historians. 



INTRODUCTION. XXV 

Amongst the Eastern nations, and especially 
among- the Jewish tribes, an honourable distinction 
depended on the continuation of the family line of 
descent: the failure of issue was therefore regarded 
as a great calamity, whilst the birth of a child in- 
spired the family with the utmost joy, and was con- 
sidered as the most inestimable blessing. 

The prophet Elisha had been hospitably enter- 
tained as an inmate in the house of one of the chief 
inhabitants of Shunem who was childless ; and be- 
ing willing to express his gratitude for the benevo- 
lence which he had experienced, he in the spirit of 
inspiration predicted the birth of a child, and as- 
sured the Shunamite that she should soon embrace 
a son. The prophet's prediction was fulfilled : a 
male child was born, which grew up ; and it is rea- 
sonable to conclude that he was the object of his 
parents' fondest regard. It happened, however, that 
being with his father in the fields, he suddenly fell 
sick, having been struck (as some have imagined) 
by the ardent rays of the sun. On this distressing 
occasion, his father caused the child to be carried 
to his mother for assistance. The Shunamite 
doubtless exerted her utmost efforts to preserve the 



XXVI INTRODUCTION. 

life of her only child ; but human aid was unavail- 
ing ; he sat on her knees for a short time, and then 
died. Overwhelmed with affliction, the distracted 
parent hurried to the prophet, and sunk prostrate at 
his feet in an agony of speechless grief. The pro- 
phet's servant attempted to repulse her : but Elisha, 
perceiving that some great calamity had befallen his 
benefactress, said, " Let her alone ; her soul is vexed 
" within her, and the Lord hath hid it from me." At 
length recovering the power of utterance, she de- 
scribed her loss in these most impassioned and pa- 
thetic interrogations, " Did I desire a son of my 
° Lord? Did not I say do not deceive me?" The 
prophet's sympathy was awakened, and he imme- 
diately proceeded to the house where the child laid 
dead. He there prayed to the Lord : and the spirit 
of the child returned; and having called the Shu- 
namite he said, " Take up thy son." 

A reflecting mind will perceive how consider- 
ably the effect of the preceding incidents is height- 
ened by the use of the four monosyllables which 
conclude the historical relation. And it seems to 
be impossible, according to the general idiom of 
our language, to substitute any other form of ex- 



INTRODUCTION. XXV11 

pression, or adopt any species of circumlocution 
or periphrasis, which could be so well adapted 
to create feelings of shame, or emotions of joy, in 
the individuals mentioned in the respective narra- 
tives, as the words used in our present translation. 

Milton has with the happiest effect imitated this 
peculiar style of composition in the conclusion of 
his periods. He thus describes the first transgres- 
sion of Eve : 

" her rash hand in evil hour 

" Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ; 
" Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat 
" Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe 
" That ALL WAS LOST." 

There is no passage to be found in the works of 
any ancient uninspired writer, that can affect the 
mind in so powerful a manner as this does ; and it 
is not now within the compass of literary skill or 
ingenuity, to describe the consequences of that fatal 
act of the mother of mankind with equal effect, in 
different phraseology, notwithstanding the boasted 
improvements in our language since the age in 
which Milton flourished. 






XXV111 INTRODUCTION. 

Another example of a beautiful climax produced 
in like manner at the close of a period may be se- 
lected from the same author in the following de- 
scription, where Adam resolves to live or perish 
with Eve. 

" O fairest of creation, last and best 

" Of all God's works, creature in whom excell'd 

" Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd 

" Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet ! 

" How art thou lost ! how on a sudden lost, 

" Defac'd, deflower'd, and now to death devote ! 

" Rather how hast thou yielded to transgress 

" The strict forbiddance, how to violate 

" The sacred fruit forbidden. Some cursed fraud 

" Of enemy hath beguil'd thee, yet unknown, 

" And me with thee hath ruin'd ; for with thee 

" Certain my resolution is to die : 

" How can I live without thee, how forgo 

" Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly join'd, 

" To live again in these wild woods forlorn ! 

" Should God create another Eve, and I 

" Another rib afford, yet loss of thee, 

" Would never from my heart ; — no, no ! I feel 

11 The link of nature draw me, flesh of flesh, 

" Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state 

" Mine never shall be parted — bliss or woe." 

It is not improbable that Milton might have been 
assisted by the following sentiments of attachment 
expressed by Ruth to Naomi in the sacred writings. 



INTRODUCTION. XXIX 

" And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, 
" or to return from following after thee: for whither 
" thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I 
" will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and 
" thy God, my God. Where thou diest, will I die; 
" and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, 
" and more also, if ought but death part thee and 



Tn declaring the attributes of God, the creator of 
the universe, what could be more appropriate and 
sublime than the words of Moses " Give ear, O ye 
Ct heavens, and I will speak ; and hear, O earth, the 
" words of my mouth." Or those of Isaiah, " Hear, 
" O heavens, and give ear, O earth ; for the Lord 
" hath spoken." 

The Book of Psalms thus describes the omnipo- 
tence of the Deity : 

" By the word of the Lord were the heavens 
" made, and all the host of them by the breath of 
" his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea 
u as an heap, he layeth up the deep in storehouses. 
" Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inha- 



XXX INTRODUCTION. 

" bitants of the world stand in awe of him ; for he 
" spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it 
" stood fast." 

Mr. Mason in his Caractacus, has agreeably to 
this model entertained a magnificent conception of 
the power of the Almighty in the following lines. 

" My soul confides 

" In that all-healing, and all-forming power, 

" Who on the radiant day when time was born, 

" Cast his broad eye upon the wild of ocean 

" And calm'd it with a glance : then plunging deep 

" His mighty arm, pluck'd from its dark domain 

" This throne of freedom, lifted it to light, 

" Girt it with silver cliffs, and call'd it Britain." 

The majesty of God is thus described by the 
prophet Habakkuk: 

" God came from Teman, and the Holy One from 
" Mount Paran. — His glory covered the heavens, 
" and the earth was full of his praise. And his 
" brightness was as the light : He stood and mea- 
" sured the earth. — The mountains saw him, and 
" they trembled. The overflowing of the water 
" passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted 
" up his hands on high." 



INTRODUCTION. XXXI 

Milton has beautifully amplified a part of this 
description in the following lines. 

" In his hand 

" He took the golden compasses prepar'd 

" In God's eternal store to circumscribe 

" This universe, and all created things ; 

" One foot he centred, and the other turn'd 

" Round through the vast profundity obscure, 

" And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, 

" This be thy just circumference, O world ! 

The prophet Nahum thus describes the power of 
God: 

" The Lord is great in power — He hath his way 
" in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds 
" are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, 
" and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers : 
" Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of 
" Lebanon languishes. The mountains quake at 
" him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned 
" at his presence, yea, the world and all that dwell 
" therein. Who can stand before his indignation ? 
" and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger ?" 

A general reader will easily perceive that to this 
description two of our most eminent writers, Shake- 



XXX11 INTRODUCTION. 

spear and Addison, have been indebted for some of 
their most celebrated lines. 

The power of the Deity is eminently illustrated 
in the following extract from Obadiah : 

" The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, 
" thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose 
" habitation is high ; that saith in his heart, Who 
" shall bring me down to the ground ? Though 
" thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou 
" set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring 
" thee down, saith the Lord." 

Dr. Johnson has thus imitated it in his Tragedy 
of Irene: 

" Should the fierce North upon his frozen wings 
" bear him above the wondering clouds, and seat 
" him in the Pleiad's golden chariot, thence shall 
" my fury drag him down to tortures." 

In the ancient mythological writers we occasion- 
ally find passages descriptive of the descent of Mer- 
cury and Iris from heaven on messages of the celestial 



INTRODUCTION. 



XXX111 



deities; but none of them can be placed in compe- 
tition with the description given in the Book of 
Psalms. 

" He bowed the heavens also, and came down, 
" and darkness was under his feet. And he rode 
" upon a cherub and did fly ; yea, he did fly upon 
" the wings of the wind." 

In descriptions of a deprecatory nature, few will 
be found in any uninspired writer more beautiful 
and impressive than the following supplication of 
the prophet Ezra. 

" I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands 
" unto the Lord, and said, O my God, I am ashamed, 
" and blush to lift up my face to thee ; for our ini- 
" quities are increased over our head, and our tres- 
" pass is grown up unto the heavens." 



And what imagery in any production of the hu- 
man mind can be comparable to the following pas- 
sage in the Book of Revelation, where the Almighty 
is described as extending his mercy and compassion 
to the righteous who had suffered tribulation ? 



XXXIV INTRODUCTION. 

" And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
" eyes." 

It is observable that the sacred writers very fre- 
quently have recourse to a meiosis, or such a form of 
expression as implies more than is declared : hence 
the beautiful simplicity of this passage signifies the 
highest possible state of everlasting felicity. 

In declamation there is nothing which more pow- 
erfully operates on the hearers' minds than when 
the speaker illustrates his argument by way of anti- 
thesis; and the writer to the Hebrews has given us 
a matchless example. 

" Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foun- 
" dation of the earth, and the heavens are the works 
" of thine hands : they shall perish, — but thou re- 
" mainest ; and they shall all wax old as doth a 
" garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, 
" and they shall be changed : — but thou art the same, 
" and thy years shall not fail." 

We meet with many passages in poetical writers 
which affect the passions in a very peculiar manner, 



INTRODUCTION. XXXV 

and often raise extraordinary emotions by a new 
and unexpected association of images; the excite- 
ment, however, soon subsides, because the incidents 
related are founded on fiction; but the descrip- 
tions in the sacred writings being established on the 
basis of truth, make deep and lasting impressions 
on the mind. 

Having thus attempted by means of a few illus- 
trations, to support the opinion herein-before ad- 
vanced, it may in conclusion be remarked, that the 
Sacred Scriptures abound with beautiful images, 
adapted to enrich composition ; and we are per- 
suaded that an attentive perusal of them will not 
only expand and improve the heart, but highly en- 
lighten the understanding of every reader who 
wishes to excel others either in eloquence, poetry, 
or painting. 



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ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



The Compiler takes this opportunity of publicly 
acknowledging his obligations to various gentlemen 
throughout the kingdom, who have promoted his 
views by permitting him to examine their collections 
of scarce dramatic works ; and he should feel a con- 
sciousness of disrespect and ingratitude, if he did 
not in an especial manner allude to the kindness 
received from the noble proprietor of the Charle- 
mont Library in Dublin, who with a liberality of 
mind characteristical of his country, afforded the 
Compiler the utmost accommodation to enable him 
to accomplish the object of his researches. 



AUTHORS' NAMES, OR PRODUCTIONS 



REFERRED TO. 



J. Adams. 
Joseph Addison. 
Anna Letitia Aikin. 
Mark Akenside. 
Anacreon (translation). 
Appollonius Rhodius (transla- 
tion). 
Robert Armin. 
John Armstrong. 
William Ashburnham. 
Francis Atterbury. 
John Baillie. 
Joanna Baillie. 
William Balmford. 
Samuel Bamford. 
John Bancroft. 
John Banks. 
Anna Letitia Barbauld. 
Alexander Barclay. 
Richard Barford. 



Barnaby Barnes. 
Robert Baron. 
Lodow Barry. 
Bernard Barton. 
J. Beattie. 
Francis Beaumont. 
Joseph Beaumont. 
Beaumont & Fletcher. 
Charles Beckingham. 
William Bedloe. 
Aphra Behn. 

Drawbridgecourt Belchier. 
Fettiplace Bellers. 
Richard Bernard. 
Thomas Betterton. 
Alexander Bicknell. 
John Bid lake. 
James Bird. 
Richard Blackmore. 
Martin Bladen. 



AUTHORS NAMES, OR 



Robert Blair. 

Hugh Blair. 

Robert Bloomfield. 

Barton Booth. 

Frances Boothby. 

John Bowring. 

Henry Boyd. 

Robert Boyle Earl of Orrery. 

Samuel Boyse. 

Henry Bradshaw. 

T. Brerewood. 

Anthony Brewer. 

Richard Brome. 

Alexander Brome. 

Henry Brooke. 

Mrs. F. Brooke. 

Charlotte Brookes. 

William Broome. 

Anthony Brown. 

William Browne. 

Dr. John Browne. 

Mary Anne Browne. 

Michael Bruce. 

Buckingham. 

Christopher Bullock. 

General J. Burgoyne. 

Edmund Burke. 

Henry Burkhead. 

Charles Burnaby. 

Charles Burney. 

Frances Burney. 

Robert Burns. 

Edward Burt. 



Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. 

Amyas Bushe. 

Charles Butler. 

Lord Byron. 

Thomas Campbell. 

James Campbell. 

Thomas Carew. 

Harry Carey. 

Lodowick Carlell * 

James Carlile. 

Frederick Earl of Carlisle. 

Richard Carpenter. 

William Cartwright. 

J.Caulfeild. 

James Cawthorn. 

Mrs. Centlivre. 

George Chapman. 

Thomas Chatterton. 

W. Churchey. 

Charles Churchill. 

GeofFry Chaucer. 

Colley Cibber. 

Theophilus Cibber. 

Cicero (translation). 

John Clare. 

James Cobb. 

Aston Cockayne. 

Charles CorTey. 

William Collins. 

George Colman. 

Coluthus (translation). 

William Congreve. 

John Cook. 



PRODUCTIONS REFERRED TO. 



Thomas Cooke. 
John Gilbert Cooper. 
Mrs. Cooper. 
Matthew Coppinger. 
John Corye. 
Barry Cornwall. 
A. S. Cottle. 
Nathaniel Cotton. 
Charles Cotton. 
Abraham Cowley. 
Mrs. H. Cowley. 
William Cowper. 
Judith Cowper. 
David Craufurd. 
Richard Crashaw. 
George Croly. 
John Crown. 
Richard Cumberland. 
Samuel Daniel. 
Sir William Davenant. 
Charles Davenant. 
Robert Davenport. 
J. Davies. 
William Davies. 
John Day. 
Thomas Dekker. 
J. Delap. 

Sir John Denham. 
John Dennis. 
Thomas Dilke. 
John Dillon. 
William Dimond. 
George Read Dixon. 



R. Dodsley. 

Dodsley's Collection. 

Thomas Dogget. 

John Donne. 

Dorset. 

Gawen Douglas. 

George Gerbier Douvilly. 

Alexander Dow. 

Harriet Downing. 

Nathan Drake. 

The Drama. 

Michael Drayton. 

Robert Drury. 

John Dry den. 

Dryden's Miscellany Poems. 

Stephen Duck. 

Thomas Duffett. 

Richard Duke. 

Mr. Dunkin. 

Thomas Durfey. 

John Dyer. 

Edward Ecclestone. 

Lawrence Echard. 

R. Edwards. 

Charles A. Elton. 

England's Parnassus. 

Sir George Etherege. 

Edward Fairfax. 

W. Falconer. 

Harriet Falconer. 

Sir Francis Fane. 

Sir Richard Fanshaw. 

George Farquhar. 



AUTHORS NAMES, OR 



Francis Fawkes. 

Elijah Fenton. 

Nathaniel Field. 

Henry Fielding. 

Edward Filmer. 

G. Fletcher. 

Samuel Foote. 

John Ford. 

Thomas Forde. 

John Fountain. 

Charles Fox. 

Fragments of Ancient Poetry. 

Philip Francis. 

Abraham Fraunce. 

Thomas Franklin. 

Philip Frowde. 

Samuel Garth. 

George Gascoigne. 

John Gay. 

Charles Gildon. 

Thomas Gisborne. 

Henry Glapthorne. 

R. Glover. 

Robert Glynn. 

Thomas Goff. 

Oliver Goldsmith. 

Robert Gomersal. 

Charles Goring. 

Robert Gould. 

John Gower. 

James Grainger. 

Bertie Greatheed. 

Matthew Green. 



George Smith Green. 
Robert Greene. 
S. Gunning. 
William Habington. 
Bp. Hall. 

William Hamilton. 
Hall Hartson. 
William Havard. 
Peter Hausted. 
Stephen Hawes. 
William Hawkins. 
William Hayley. 
Eliza Haywood. 
William Heard. 
Paul Heffernan. 
Mrs. Hemans. 
William Hemings. 
Robert Herrick. 
James Hervey. 
T. K. Hervey. 
Hesiod (translation). 
William Hett. 
Jasper Heywood. 
Thomas Heywood. 
John Heywood. 
Henry Higden. 
Bevil Higgons. 
Aaron Hill. 
Benjamin Hoadly. 
Prince Hoare. 
William Hodson. 
James Hogg. 
Thomas Hogg. 



PRODUCTIONS REFERRED TO. 



Thomas Hoicroft. 
Barton Holy day. 
John Home. 
Barbara Hoole. 
Charles Hopkins. 
Sir Robert Howard. 
James Howard. 
Edward Howard. 
Gorges Edmond Howard. 
James Howell. 
Francis Hoyland. 
John Hughes. 
Thomas Hull. 
J. H. L. Hunt. 
Thomas Hurlstone. 
Robert Hurst. 
Sir Hildebrand Jacob. 
Richard Jago. 
Soame Jenyns. 
Robert Jephson. 
Samuel Johnson. 
Dr. Samuel Johnson. 
Charles Johnson. 
Sir William Jones. 
Henry Jones. 
John Jones. 
Ben Jon son. 
Thomas Jordan. 
William Joyner. 
Junius. 
George Keate. 
Hugh Kelly. 
Thomas Killigrew. 



Henry Killigrew. 
Henry King. 
John Kirk. 
Thomas Kyd. 
John Lacy. 
L. E. Landon. 
Walter S. Landor. 
John Langhorne. 
Lansdowne. 
John Leanerd. 
Mary Leapor. 
Nathaniel Lee. 
Miss Lee. 
Charlotte Lennox. 
M. G. Lewis. 
John Lidgate. 
John Iilly. 
George Lillo. 

Lisle 

Robert Lloyd. 
Thomas Lodge. 
John Logan. • 

Edward Lovibond. 
Sir William Lower. 
Lusiad (translation). 
Lyttelton. 
Lewis Machin. 
Charles Macklin. 
Leonard Macnally. 
J. Macpherson. 

Madan. 

L. Maidwell. 
Jasper Maine. 



AUTHORS NAMES, OR 



David Mallet. 

Mrs. de la Riviere Manley. 

F. Manning. 

Christopher Marlowe. 

Shakerly Marmion. 

John Marston. 

Benjamin Martyn. 

Andrew Marvel. 

William Mason. 

Philip Massenger. 

William Mavor. 

Thomas Maurice. 

Thomas May. 

Robert Mead. 

Henry Medwall. 

Mark Antony Meilan. 

Thomas Meriton. 

Moses Mendez. 

James Merrick. 

Robert Merry. 

William Julius Mickle. 

Thomas Middleton. 

H. H. Milman. 

James Miller. 

John Milton. 

Mirandola. 

Joseph Mitchell. 

Mary Russell Mitford. 

James Montgomery. 

Robert Montgomery. 

Sir Thomas Moore. 

Sir John Henry Moore. 

Edward Moore. 



Thomas Moore. 

Thomas Morton. 

Peter Motteux. 

John Mottley. 

William Mountford. 

Arthur Murphy. 

Thomas Nabbs. 

Henry Neele. 

Robert Nevile. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Margaret Duchess of Newcastle. 

Mr. O'Brien. 

John Ogilvie. 

John O'Keeffe. 

John Oldmixon. 

Ossian's Poems. 
Thomas Otway. 
Oxford Sausage. 
William Painter. 
John Palsgrave. 
Thomas Parnell. 
Anthony Pasquin. 
William Paterson. 
Henry Peacham. 
George Peele. 
William Penkethman. 
Thomas Penrose. 
Ambrose Philips. 
Catherine Philips. 
J. Philips. 
William Philips. 
Thomas Picke. 
Matthew Pilkington. 



PRODUCTIONS REFERRED TO. 



Pindar (translation). 

Peter Pindar. 

Christopher Pitt. 

Mary Pix. 

Poetical Calendar by Fawkes & 
Woty. 

Robert Pollok. 
J. Pomfret. 
Poole's Parnassus. 
Alexander Pope. 
Samuel Pordage. 
Ab. Portal. 
Thomas Porter. 
Jane Porter. 
Dr. Porteus. 
George Powell. 
Edmund Prestwich. 
Matthew Prior. 
Henry James Pye. 
Francis Quarles. 
James Ralph. 
Alan Ramsay. 
Thomas Randolph. 
Edward Ravenscroft. 
Thomas Rawlins. 
Frederick Reynolds. 
Nathaniel Richards. 
"William Richardson. 
David Lester Richardson. 
William Roberts. 
Mary Robinson. 
Thomas Shipman. 
James Shirley. 



John Benjamin Rogers, 
S. Rogers. 
Mr. Rolle. 
Matthew Rolleston. 
Richard Rolt. 
William Rose. 
Nicholas Rowe. 
Mrs. Rowe. 
William Rowley. 
Samuel Rowley. 
Joseph Rutter. 
M. Sackville. 
Sacred Scriptures. 
William Sampson. 
George Sandys. 
Richard Savage. 
Charles Saunders. 
Sir Walter Scott. 
John Scott of Am well. 
Thomas Scot. 
Sir Charles Sedley. 
Amhurst Selden. 
Elkanah Settle. 
George Sewell. 
Thomas Shadwell. 
William Shakespear. 
Lewis Sharp. 
Cuthbert Shaw. 
Richard Shiel. 
William Shenstone. 
S. Sheppard. 
Edward Sherburne. 
R. B. Sheridan. 



AUTHORS NAMES, OR 



Henry Shirley. 
William Shirley. 
Sir Philip Sidney. 
John Skelton. 
Edmund Smith. 
John Smith. 
Henry Smithers. 
Tobias Smollett. 
William Somervile. 
Robert South. 
Thomas Southern. 
Robert Southey. 
Edmund Spenser. 
Edward Stanley. 
Thomas Stanley. 
Earl of Sterline. 
James Sterling. 
John Hall Stevenson. 
M. Stevenson. 
William Strode. 
John Studley. 
C. C. Sturm. 
John Sturmy. 
Sir John Suckling. 
Henry Earl of Surrey. 
Jonathan Swift. 
Joshua Sylvester. 
Tasso (translation). 
Nahum Tate. 
John Tatham. 
William Taverner. 
John Taylor. 
James Templeton. 



Lewis Theobald. 

Theocritus (translation). 

William Thompson. 

Benjamin Thompson. 

James Thomson. 

George Thornley. 

Lord Thurlow. 

Thomas Tickell. 

John Tillotson. 

John Tobin. 

— Tomkis. 

George Townsend. 

John Tracy. 

Joseph Trapp. 

George Turbervile. 

Cyril Turner. 

Vathek. 

Sir John Vanbrugh. 

Henry Vaughan. 

Lewis Wager. 

Edmund Waller. 

Isaac Walton. 

Mr. Walwyn. 

Osborne Sidney Wandesford. 

Edward Ward. 

Thomas Ward. 

Robert Waring. 

Thomas Warton. 

J. Warton. 

Isaac Watts. 

John Webster. 

Jane West. 

Matthew West. 



PRODUCTIONS REFERRED TO. 



John Weston. 

George Whetstones. 

William Whitaker. 

William Whitehead. 

William Wilkie. 

Richard Wilkinson. 

Robert Wilmot. 

John Wilson. 

Anne Countess of Winchilsea. 

Jane Wiseman. 



George Wither. 

George Murgatroyd Woodward. 
William Wordsworth. 
James Worsdale. 
Sir Thomas Wyatt. 
William Wycherley. 
Robert Yarrington. 
Edward Young. 

Lawrence Young; — and certain 
other miscellaneous references. 






FLOWERS OF FANCY, 



AB H 



ABHOR it like the plague. Banks. Abhor it worse than the 
air breathed from infection. Peaps. Abhor his arms more 
than an aspic's twine, or scorpion's clasp. Goring. Abhorred 
as hell. Blachmore. 

ABORTIVE as the first-born bloom of spring nipped with the 
lagging rear of winter's frost. Milton. 

ABSURD as to strive against the stream. Spenser. — as from 
men's prosperity or sufferings to conclude their innocence or 
guilt. South. — as to hope for constancy in the wind. Byron.— - 
as to seek to pacify the sea with tears. Glapthorne. — as to en- 
deavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter. Dr. 
Johnson. — as to endeavour to quench fire with oil. Quarles. — 
as to endeavour to increase the splendor of the sun by a lighted 
taper. H. Blair. — as to deny that two and two make four in 

1 arithmetic. South. — as to expect harvest in the dead of win- 
ter. Ibid. — as the belief of a plain contradiction. Tillotson. 
ABSURDITY as monstrous, as if a painter should draw a coward 
running from a battle, and tell us it was the picture of Alexan- 
der the Great. Dry den. 
ACCEPTABLE as provision to a starving city. Dr. Johnson. 
ACTIVE as the sun. Watts. — as day. Mrs. Brooke. — as the 

B 






ADA 

light. Hopkins, in Dryden s Miscellany. — as fire. Drayton, 
Glapthorne, ty others. — as celestial fire. Sharp. — as flame. 
Mallet. — as the air. J. Shirley. — as the roe. jZV. Cotton. Ac- 
tive, wild, and free as Conception, when she breeds ideas. 
Cawthorn. 

ADAPTED to it as light is to the eyes, or truth to the under- 
standing. Akenside. 
ADDLED like an egg. Fielding. 

ADORNED like May blooming in sweets and bright with spring- 
ing beauties. L. Theobald. She is more adorned in her tears 
than plants by sparkling dew. Play, Peruvian. 

ADVERSE as pole to pole. Burke. 

AFFRIGHT. Thy touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. Shakes- 
pear. 

AGREEABLE as the distant sound of the harp, when it comes 
in the evening on the soft rustling breeze of the vale. Ossian. 

ALERT as Cupid. Lyttelton. 

ALIKE as two silver drops of dew. Beaumont fy Fletcher. One 
pearl of dew kissing the drooping cheeks of flowers in May, 
is not so like another. John Smith. Alike as two drops of 
water. Dryden. All alike as sands on the shore. Byron. 

ALLURING as the vernal gale wafting the fragrance of the 
spicy dale. TV. Richardson. 

ALONE like a rock left by the ebbing sea. Ossian. — like a rock 
in a sandy vale. Ibid. 

AMBITIOUS as the devil. Beaumont $> Fletcher. 

AMOROUS as May. Recreation for ingenious Head Pieces. — 
as youthful May. Play, Albumazar, by Tomkis.—as the sun 
that kisses all the beauties of the spring. Behn. — as an Arca- 
dian. Colman. — as the dove. Merry. 

AMPLE as heaven. Marston. Bounty, ample as the wind. Dryden. 
ANCIENT as the world. Lansdowne.. 



ATT 

ANGRY as a tiger. J. Shirley. — as a wasp. Gascoigne, J. Dames. 

as a pismire. Chaucer. Angry and malicious as a viper. Ha- 

rington. 

ANSWER him like an echo. Jonson. 

ANXIOUS as a mother watching the first faint tinge of health 
revisiting her child's wan cheek. Landon. 

APPARENT as the sun is clear. Sylvester. 

APPREHENSIVE. She hath a spirit and temper apprehen- 
sive as lightning, and as swift in execution. Sir W. Scott. 
Full of apprehension as an old soldier upon the guard of a 
counterscarp. Southern. 

APT as new fallen snow takes any dint. Shakespear. 

ARDENT as those flames that singed the world bj ne dless 
Phaeton. Marston. 

ARROGANT as the devil. Divine Masque, 1660. 

ARTLESS as unpractised infancy. Dryden's Troilus. — as the 
infancy of truth. Ibid. 

ASPIRING as fire. Higgons' dedication to Cowley. 

ASTONISHED as a man who walking in the grass, upon a ser- 
pent suddenly doth tread. Drayton, in England's Parnassus. 
— as he who unawares has trod upon a snake. Dry den. — as 
one who unawares, with heedless tread, has crushed a snake, 
that swoln with poison lay in slumber rolled amid the grassy 
way. Hoole's Ariosto. Astonished stood, as one that had 
espied infernal furies with their chains untied. Spenser. — as 
one that has been stricken with a flash of lightning. Palace of 
Pleasure, by William Painter. Astonished and confounded, 
as if they were struck dumb and senseless by a blast of thun- 
der. R. Hurst. 

ASUNDER. As far asunder as the poles. E. Young. 

ATTENTION. Enforce attention like deep harmony. Tate. 

ATTRACT like a magnet. Fragments, Greek Tragic Theatre. 
More attractive than a loadstone. R. Wilkinson. Whose as- 

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A U S 

pect even like a comet did attract all eyes with admiration, won- 
der, and amazement. Play, Swetnam Arraigned. By a strange 
attractive force drawn, as the adamant draws the iron, or the 
jet the straw. R. Greene's Arcadia. As opening huds attract 
the wandering bee. M. Robinson. 

AUSTERE as Cato. R. Greene.— as Zeno. Pope. 

AWFUL as a God. Gildon, Addison. — as the God who flings 
his thunder round. Dry den. Awful and bright as lightnings 
shine. Watts. 

AZURE as the skies. Mickles Lusiad. 



B. 

JjALD as time. R. Brome. — as a looking-glass, Marmion. 

BALMY as the dew which the morn sheds on the rose's cheek. 
Glapthorne. — as cordials that recover souls. Lee, Gildon. 

BANEFUL as death. N.Rowe. — as the pestilential wind. W. H. 
Ireland. 

BARBAROUS as the seas or wind. Charles Hopkins, in Dry- 
den's Miscellany. 

BARE as winter. Burns. — as January. Armin. — as an anatomy. 
Marston. — as new-born Venus rising from the sea. Cibber. — 
as my nail. Play, Like will to like. 

BARK as loud as Cerberus. Dr. Johnson. 

BARREN as the sand. Quarles. — as the sand upon the sea- 
shore. Tillotson. — as banks of Libya. Shakespear. — as the 
desert sand. Play, Forgery. Barrener than the sea shore. 
South. — as leafless boughs in winter time. Pollok. 

BASE as treason. C. Hopkins. — as the dirt beneath my feet. 
Watts. Base and unlustrous as the smoky light that is fed by 
stinking tallow. Shakespear. Baser than envy. Leanerd. 

BASELESS as the fantastic visions of the evening. N. Cotton. 

BASHFUL as virgins. Margaret Duchess of Newcastle. 



BE A 

BEAR away, like an ever-rolling stream. Watts. Bear it with 

me, as the rushing wind bears the cloud onward. Byron. 
BEAUTEOUS as a goddess. Thomas Baker. — as Venus when 
she rose from ocean's bed. G. P. Bromley. — as an angel. 
Behn, Sothehy. — as lovers' eyes. Suckling. — 
His lovely child the fost'ring Graces rear'd. 
Not on Eurotas' banks so beauteous shone 
The faithless partner of the Spartan throne, 
Not she who conquer'd whom the world obey'd, 
On Cydnus when in pomp of charms array'd, 
Mortals deceiv'd, in awful rapture gaz'd, 
And incense to the present goddess blaz'd. 

Translation of Voltaire's Henriade. 
— as a summer sun. Chatterton. — as the sunny beam, which 
glittering dances on the limpid stream. Poetical Calendar. — 
as the opening day, when on the spangling waves the sun- 
beams play. Chatterton. Beauteous and bright is he among 
the tribes, as when the sun attired in glistering robe comes 
dancing from his oriental gate. Peele. More beauteous than 
the day. Quarles. — than the dawn of summer's day. Harriet 
Falconer. — as the morn. Carey, W. Richardson. — as the blush- 
ing morn. Otway. She is beauteous as the radiant face of 
blushing morning, when the golden east discloses her with all 
her train of graces to the enraptured eyes. James Templeton. 
— as the morn in May. J. Hewitt. — as May. Sotheby's Oberon. 
— as the glorious frame of heaven. Play, Jack Drum's Enter- 
tainment. — 

as the spring, 

When from the vi'let-woven couch awak'd 
By frolic zephyr's hand, her tender cheek 
Graceful she lifts, and blushing, from her bower 
Issues to clothe in gladsome glist'ring green 
The genial globe. T. Warton. 
— as the first blossoms of the spring before the common sun has 
kissed their sweets away. Behn. — as the budding flower ex- 
haling sweetness in its vernal hour. Lines by the author of 



B E A 

Taliesin's Poem. — as the bloom of May. W. Richardson. — as a 
new blown flower. Play, Fatal Discovery, or Love in Ruins. — 
as a rose. PasquiVs Nightcap. — as a lily. A. Cherry. — as the 
hyacinth. Baron. 

BEAUTIFUL as the day. /. Shirley, Durfey, $ others. More 
beautiful than the sun. Wisdom of Solomon. — than the rising 
sun. 0. S. Wandesford. Beautiful as the sun going into the 
sea. Giacomo Greber. Beautiful as is the gorgeous palace of 
the sun. T. Heywood. — as the light of the morning when the 
sun riseth. Sacred Script. — as a morning without clouds. 
Ibid. — as the blushing morning. Durfey. — as rosy mornings 
in the pleasing month of May. Play, Different Widoivs. — as 
the smiles of the morning. Play, Selima fy Azov, More beau- 
tiful than the grey-eyed morn drest in her clearest robes, such 
as adorn her in the spring. Play, Love a la mode. Beautiful 
as nature in the spring. Wandesford. — as the stars. Holyday. — 
as the imperial star of Jove. Cornwall. More beautiful than is 
the morning or midnight star. Joyner. Beautiful as was bright 
Lucifer before his fall. Marlowe. — as the moon. S. Rousseau's 
Flowers of Persian Literature. — as sunset clouds. Cornwall. — 
as summer's evening skies. R. Shiel. — as summer's glowing 
eve. Landon. — as May. Ibid. — as May the glory of the year, 
when first she comes arrayed all beauteous with the robes of 
heaven. Bruce. — as light descending on the darkened sight. 
Landon. — as heaven. Day. — like the showery bow when it 
shows its lovely head on the lake, and the setting sun is bright. 
Ossian. Beautiful and bright as the full moon. Dryden.—as 
Venus. R. Greene, Centlivre, fy others. More beautiful than 
love's queen. R. Greene. — than the bright Cyprian goddess. 
C. Johnson. Beautiful as Juno graced with Cytherea's zone. 
Fenton. — as an angel. C. Shadwell, Jane Wiseman, fy others. — 
as pearls hidden in their shell. Sale's Koran. Beautiful and 
fair as orient pearls and rubies are. Sir P. Sidney. More 
beautiful than precious sardonyx, or purple rocks of amethysts, 
or glist'ring hyacinth. Play, Taming of a Shrew. Beautiful 
as martyrs' visions. Centlivre.— -as Eden. Banlcs.—as the 



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blossoms of spring. /. Hervey. — as is the rose. R. Estcourt. — 
as a rose newly blown. Higden, R. Wilkinson. — as the flower 
of meekness on a stem of grace. /. Montgomery. — as the wings 
of a dove covered with silver. Sacred Script. There was once 
a time, had virtue worn the perfect form of beauty, or clothed 
it in an angel's robe of radiance, it would have looked like her. 
P. Francis. 

BEGUILE him, as the mournful crocodile with sorrow snares 
relenting passengers. Shakespear. 

BELLOW like a savage bull. Broome. — as bulls. Sacred Script., 
ty others. — -like a cow. E. Ward. 

BELOVED as much as the children of old age. Preston's notes 
on App. Rhodius. 

BEND like lilies overcharged with rain. Carew. — like a droop- 
ing lily charged with rain. Poetical Calendar. Behold that 
beauteous maid ! her languid head bends like a lily charged 
with rain. Melpomene, a Poem. Bend like roses crushed with 
falling rain. Fenton. — like the trunk of an aged oak. Ossian. 
Like a feeble flower o'ercharg'd with rain bends to earth the 
weeping head. Philip Francis. Stoop not thy head, that like 
a pale rose bends upon its yielding stalk. R. Shiel. 

BENEVOLENT as heaven. Massinger, Hayley. 

BEWITCH like Calypso. R.Greene. Bewitching like the wan- 
ton mermaids' songs. Shakespear. 

BEYOND. She esteemed this as much above his wisdom, as 
astonishment is beyond bare admiration. South. 

BITE like pepper. Gay. 

BITTER to me as death. Shakespear.— &$ coloquintida. Ibid. — 
as wormwood. Sacred Script., Burton, fy others. — as gall. 
Gascoigne, R. Greene, 8$ others. 

BLACK as night. J. Jones, Goff, ty others. — as midnight. Sir 
W. Scott* — as darkest midnight. R. Shiel. — as darkest night. 
Fairfax. — as pitchy night. Spenser. — as a stormy night. Dry- 



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den. — as the winter night. Chatterton. Blacker than a star- 
less night. A. Cowley. — as eternal night's unchanging shades. 
N. Rowe. — as night's swarthy mantle. Play, Sicily and Na- 
ples, or Fatal Union. — as darkness. Play, Thornby Abbey. — 
as deepest darkness. Lilly. — as Cimmerian darkness. Beau- 
mont fy Fletcher. — as death. Greene, Shakespear, fy others. 
— as hell. SacJcville, Shakespear, ty others. — as Styx. Dray- 
ton, J. Beaumont. — as Acheron. Shakespear, Morton. — as the 
shades of hell. Durfey. — as the gloom of hell. J. Hervey. 
Black and sullen as a storm. N. Rowe. — as a stormy night. 
Dryden. — as clouds that low'r. Poem, Fragments of Fingal. 
He looked black as the sea before the heavily charged thun- 
der clouds that canopy it dissolve themselves in rain. Tale of 
the Passions, in the Liberal. Look black as thunder. P. Pin- 
dar. — as the whirlwinds of the north. Garrick, in Dodsleifs 
Collection. — as guilt. A. Hill. — as sin can make me. Mead. 
Sin, black as murder. Dekker. — as soot. Harington, Sir W. 
Davenant, fy others. — as Vulcan in the smoke of war. Shakes- 
pear. — as if besmeared in hell. Ibid. Blacker than a coal. 
Sacred Script. Black as a coal. Chaucer, Lidgate, fy others. — as 
cinder. Poem, Paddy Hew. — as pitch. Lidgate, Spenser, fy 
others. — like an oven. Sacred Script. — as chimney stocks. E. 
Ward. — as winter chimney or well-polished jet. J. Phillips. — 
as jet. Chaucer, Lidgate, § others. — as pitch or polished jet. 
Harington. — as ebony. Shakespear. — as the smooth jet, or 
glossy raven's back. Gay. — as a raven. Sacred Script., T. 
Killigrew, 8$ others. — as the raven's wing. G. Peele, Prior, fy 
others. — as the wing of the night raven. Sir TV. Scott. — as 
the raven's plumes. T. Heywood, Pope, fy others. — as raven 
plumage. Landon. — as a crow. Chaucer, Shakespear, § 
others. — as the feathers of a crow. Chaucer. — as a sloe. 
Chaucer, Durfey, 8? others. — as autumn sloe. Drayton. — 
as a berry. Chaucer. — as ink. Barclay, Spenser, fy others. 
as sable. Chaucer, Gower, fy others. — as a mourning weed. A. 
Seward. — as funeral pall. Sir W. Scott. — as the tongue of in- 
famy. J. Shirley.— as infamy can make him. Cumberland. 



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Blacker than a Moor. A. Cowley. Play, Intriguing Widow. — 
than the skin of Moors. N. Lee. Her soul was blacker than 
an Ethiop's dye. John Tracy. — as an ouzel. Chapman, 

BLAND. An odour all bland, as ocean-breezes gather from the 
flowers that blossom in Elysium. T. Moore. Sounds, as bland 
as Zephyrus when first he wakes the spring. Andrew Beckett. 

BLAST like lightning. Hughes, Sir Thomas Moore, fy others. — 
like lightning's transient fires. Poetical Calendar. Blast, burn 
and consume like lightning. C. Davenant. Blast it sudden as 
lightning does the mountain heath. Macklin. — like the mildew. 
Shakespear, Whitaker. Like a mildewed ear blasting his 
wholesome brother. Shakespear. Blast like a northern wind, 
the opening buds. Centlivre. — like a basilisk, each one they 
look on. A. Hill. — like the pestilence. Delap, Southey. 

BLAZE like the sun. S. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Litera- 
ture. — like a star of the first magnitude. Sir John Denham. 
Blaze fierce as a comet. Milton. — like flaming pitch. Quarles. 
Blazing as a meteor. /. Smith. — like roving meteors. W, 
Thompson. 

BLESSED as the pleasing dreams of holy men. R. Blair. 

BLIGHT like lightning. Play, Roving Husband reclaimed. 

BLIND as ignorance. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as death. Ibid. — 
as hell. Habington. — as fortune. Dryden. — as upstart great- 
ness. Lillo. — as Cupid. Sir W. Davenant, Fred. Reynolds. 
— as love. Mead, T. Killigrew, fy others. — as moles. Beau- 
mont 8$ Fletcher, Sylvester, fy others — as owls amidst the glare 
of day. Doynes Tasso. — as bats, Sylvester, A. Maclaren. — as 
a buzzard. Otway. — as a beetle. Chapman, Sir TV. Davenant, 
fy others. — as the Cyclop. — Dryden. — as a stone. Chaucer. 
Blind and silent as the night. Sir W. Davenant. 

BLITHE as youth. B. Hoole. — as May. P. Hoare. Blithesome 
as the sun. Grainger. Blithe as the day. H. Ward. — as the 
rays that cheer the blushing morn. A. Cherry. Blithe and 
lusty as the summer. C. Gibber. — as a kid. Ramsay. — as lamb- 



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kin on a morn of May. J. Hogg. Blithe and artless as the 
lambs on the lea. Burns. Blithe as birds in spring. C. Dibdin. — 
as birds on the tree. Dry den's Miscellany. Sing as blithe as 
thrushes. L. Macnally. Blithe as the linnet sings in the green 
wood. Robin Hood, an entertainment. — as bird of morning's 
light. G.Peele. — as a lark. Play, Wandering Boys. — as morn- 
ing lark. A. Seward. — as the soaring lark. Somervile. 

BLOOM like a rose. Sir W. Scott. Her cheeks like roses bloom. 
Sir W. Jones. She bloomed like the rose of paradise. James 
Hogg. — like the desert's lily. Shenstone. — like the spring. 
Banks. — like May. H. Carey. Bloom lovely as spring. Po- 
etical Calendar. 

BLOOMING as the spring. Dryden. — as May. Prior, T. Brere- 
wood, ty others. — as the month of May. Pope. — as the son of 
Maia. Glover. — as the dawn. T. Moore. — as health. Fawkes. 
— as a goddess. Pope. — -as a bride. Poetical Calendar. 

BLOSSOM as the rose. Sacred Script. They blossomed nu- 
merous as the flowery spring. Smollett. 

BLOW like sweet roses in the summer air. Shakespear. Blow 
rough and high like a tempest. South. 

BLUE as the over-arching skies. Southey. — as the freezing sky. 
Poole's Parnassus. — like the sky in April. Sir W. Jones. 
Eyes, blue as a June sky when stars light up its deep clear mid- 
night. Landon. Eyes, blue as the sky of summer. N. Drake. 
• — as the skies. Farce, Who is afraid. — as the heavens. J. Wil- 
son, author of Isle of Palms. Eye, blue as heaven. Byron. — as 
azure. Randolph. — as sapphire. Sir P. Sidney, in England's 
Parnassus, Vathek. — as a bilberry. Poetical Calendar.— &$ the 
welkin. Marston. — as steel. R. Wilkinson. 

BLUNT as ignorance. S. Rowley. — as fencers' foils. Shakespear, 

BLUSH like day's first dawn. Glover. — like day-break. Landon. 
Blushing like the morn. Sir W. Davenant, Milton, fy others. — 
like the virgin morn. Congreve. — like the perfumed morn. R. 
B. Sheridan. Like the morn thou dost in blushes shine. Sir 



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W. Davenant. Like the morn in blushes rise. Crown. Such 
was the infant morn when it first brake, and blushed to see the 
chaos left behind her. Wilson. Fair Venus like the breaking 
morn, with virgin blushes does the plain adorn. Play, Battle 
of Aughrim. Blush like the purple morn. Addison. Her 
face was like the blushing of the east when Titan charged the 
morning sun to rise. R. Greene. Blush like a fair morning in 
May. Sir P. Sidney. — like Aurora. Durfey, C. Johnson. — 
like Aurora's lip. Byron. — like Aurora's cheeks. H. Neele. 
Blush as if modesty herself had there lain in a bed of coral. 
Randolph. She was rosed over with the virgin crimson of 
modesty. Shakespear. Her cheeks are deeper dyed in scar- 
let than the chaste morning's blushes. A. Cowley. Blush as 
deep as crimson. The Forced Marriage, in Foote's Comic The- 
atre. Blushing as a bride. Pollok. Blushing fair like bride 
herself. Poem, Grecian Story. — like a virgin bride. Collins. — ■ 
like the sunset. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — like the last beam of 
evening thrown on a white cloud. Sir TV. Scott. Blush red 
as any glowing flame. Turbervile. Blush like a rose bud in a 
bush. Play, Peeping Tom. Blush like a rose. Sir W. Dave- 
nant 8$ others. — like a blown rose. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — like 
any opening rose. Sir W. Scott. — like vernal roses. Penrose. 
— like the rose, when the enamoured spring by kissing blows 
soft blushes on her cheek. Habington. The rose buds now are 
blooming on your cheeks, and ope themselves into a crimson 
blush. Play, Fatal Union. Blushing as the crimson rose. 
J. Davies, Scourge of Folly. Blushing as red as a rose. Edw. 
Fairfax, Holer oft. — like roses in the early morn. G. R. Dixon. 
Blushing like the rose's flower opening to the day. Sir W. 
Scott. Blush like the fair summer rose. /. Stagg. 

BLUSTER like the north wind. Centlivre, Poems on State Af- 
fairs. Blustering as the wind. Cooke's Hesiod. 

BODING as ravens. E. Young. 

BOISTEROUS as the sea. Pope.— as March. Sir W. Scott.— 
as the winds. Yalden, in Dryden's Miscellany. 



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BOLD as day. W. Wordsworth. — as Paul in the presence of 
Agrippa. W. Cowper — as Daniel in the lions' den. Byron. — 
as Curtius. Penrose. — as a Centaur at a feast. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. — as Mars. Ambrose Philips, N. Lee. Bold as if gifted 
with ten thousand lives. T. Moore. — as lions. Chapman, T. 
Ward, 8$ others. — as lions vexed with hunger. Glapthorne. — as 
a mountain wolf. Chatterion. — as a ravenous wolf amid the 
tender flocks. Quarles. — as a dying saint. Settle. 

BOTTOMLESS as the heavens are in extension infinite. H. 
Shirley. — as hell. B. Jonson, Taylor, § others. 

BOUND like a doe. J. Caulfeild. — like a mountain roe. J. Wil- 
son, author of Isle of Palms. Bounding along like a sportive 
fawn. Ibid. — like a roe-buck. Sir W. Scott. Bound fast, as 
Prometheus to Caucasus. Shakespear. 

BOUNDLESS as a God. Settle.— as the heavens. T. Heywood. 
— as space. Byron. — as the sea. Shakespear, Otway, fy others . 
— as the sky. Drayton. — as the air. G. S. Green. — as the wind. 
Otway, Swift. — as the blooms of spring. Akenside. — as thought, 
as elemental fire. C. Johnson. — as ambition. — Savage. 

BOUNTEOUS as nature. Drijden. — as clouds to earth. B. Jon- 
son. — as the air. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as the air which fed 
Israel when manna fell from heaven for bread. Southey. — as 
autumn. Play, Sulieman. 

BOUNTIFUL as autumn. Shakespear. — as April rains. W. 
Cowper. — as the showers that fall into the spring's green bosom. 
J. Shirley. — as mines of India. Shakespear. 

BOW down his head as a bulrush. Sacred Script. Bowed her 
head like the drooping lily. Jane West. 

BRAVE as Alcides. Smith. — as Hercules. Durfey. — as Philip's 
son. Play, The Three Lords of London. — as Caesar. Ramsay, 
W. O l Brien. — as a lion. Cobb, Sheridan, 8$ others. — as the 
summer. Lord Thurlow. — as steel. Sir W. Scott. Brave the 
deep yawning gulf like Curtius for his country's sake. Jenyns. 
Brave as brave may be. Devices of Sundry Gentlemen. 



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BREAK like glass. Lansdowne. — like a bubble. Thomson. 

BREAK forth. — Then shall thy light break forth as the morn- 
ing. Sacred Script. — like day. Goff, Shirley. Break out like 
a sun slipping from behind a cloud. Play, Wits led by the 
nose. 

BREATHE soft as a whispering summer's evening's gale. Play, 
Neglected Virtue. In softest accents whisper your consent, O 
breathe it gently as a western breeze. B. Marty n. Breathe 
out destruction like a raging pestilence. Ibid. Breathe as short 
as a new taken sparrow. Shakespear. 

BRIGHT as the sun. Chaucer, Gower, fy others. — as the golden 
sun. Cumberland. — as the golden sun in cloudless skies. Poem, 
Aurelia. — as a new born sun. R. Montgomery. — as the sum- 
mer sun. Dryden's Miscellany. — more bright than summer 
suns. Somervile. — as the rising sun. Randolph, South, 8$ others. 
— as the rising sun in summer's day. Pope. — as the rising of 
the golden sun. R. Shiel. — as the morning sun. Old Ballad 
Henry fy Catherine, N. Rowe, fy others. — as the first sun when 
on the eastern shore he rises fresh and decks the infant day. 
C. Saunders. — as the sun amid the golden orient. R. Shiel. — 
as the glory of the dazzling sun. Wandesford. — as the glorious 
sun. Death of Abel, an oratorio. — as Phoebus. Lidgate, 
Peacham. — as Phoebus' sphere. — Wyatt. Brighter than Phoe- 
bus in his glittering pride. T. Forde. — than Phoebus' rays. 
R. Wilkinson. — than Phoebus in the southern skies. W. Balm- 
ford. — than glist'ring Phoebus when the fields are fired. Alex- 
ander Earl of Sterline. — than the god of day. Durfey. — 
than the beams of the sun. R. Greene. — than glittering Phoe- 
bus' beams when at his rise he gilds the eastern streams. J. 
Dancer. Bright his eyes as solar beams reflecting tempered 
light from crystal streams. Prior. — as noon. Sylvester, Watts, 
<J others. — as noon day. N. Lee. — as ah August noon. Landon. 
— as the beam of noon. Ossian. — as the noon day's stainless 
beam. Mallet. — as the noon day's sun. Play, Traitor to himself, 
M. Clancy, fy others. Brighter than the sun at noon. Durfey — 



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than the eye of noon. Quarles. Bright and clear as the noon 
sun. Duchess of Newcastle. Bright as the noon-tide sun. T. 
Heywood. — as the noon-tide splendor of the sun. — Doyne's 
Tasso. — as radiant noon- tide hours. Fawkes. Made the place 
as bright as if the sun had shone therein at twelve o'clock at 
noon. Lidgate. Brighter than mid-day Phoebus. Quarles. — 
than the mid-day sun. Gildon, Carey, fy others. Brightly 
burning as the mid-day sun. Play, Spanish Tragedy. Bright 
as the glories of the mid-day sun. Churchill. Bright and clear 
as mid-day sunshine. Cawthom. Bright as the radiance of 
meridian day. Jephson. — as the meridian sun which dazzles 
all beholders. Centlivre. — as Hyperion's beams. The Phoe- 
nician Damsels, in Greek Tragic Theatre. — as a sun-beam. 
John Bale, H. Shirley. Brighter than Phoebus' fiery pointed 
beams. England's Parnassus. Not brighter beams the star of 
day-break, or Phoebus from his orient sky. Charles A. Elton. 
— than Phoebus' rays. R. Wilkinson. — than Phoebus' rays 
when he with all his lustre darts his fiery sparkling beams. 
Play, St. Cecily. — as the sunny ray. Spenser. — as meridian 
rays. Ramsay.— as the orient ray. J. Hogg. Brighter than 
sun-shine. Marlowe in England's Parnassus, Shepherds' Lottery. 
Bright as the sun-shine before a storm. Ossian. Brighter than 
the sun in summer when no clouds cast shadows from the 
middle region. Play, Rome's Follies. — than great Phoebus' car. 
/. Taylor. — than the chariot of the sun. J. Shirley. — than the 
burnished palace of the sun, the eye-sight of the glorious fir- 
mament. Play, Taming of a Shrew. — than Apollo's crown. 
Marlowe. Bright as Apollo's rays. Mrs. S. Gunning. Bright 
and declining as a setting sun. Watts. — as the breaking east. 
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, T. Betterton. — as the orient beam that 
illumines our sky. A. Cherry. — as Aurora. Swift, Bulloch, to- 
others. — as Aurora's car. Hayley. — as the morn. Play, Look 
about you, Randolph, fy others. — as the morn or new created 
light. W. Harrison. — as orient morn. Akenside. — as the ray 
of morn. Mason. — as morning's ray. Scott of Amwell. — as the 
morning. G. Sandys, Thurlow, £? others. — as when from the 



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crimson curtains of the morn the sun appearing in his glory 
throws new robes of beauty o'er heaven and earth. M. Bruce. 
— as the blush of morn. Poem, Margaret of Anjou. Bright 
and blushing as the morn. Hawkesworth. Bright as the blush 
of rising morn. Darwin's Botanic Garden. Bright as the blush- 
ing morning's beams. E. Settle. — as the beauties of the blush- 
ing morn when all the azure ports of heaven unbarred, let forth 
the streaming day. Goring. — as the morn which gives the 
flowers their beauty, and welcome as the gale which wafts their 
sweetness. O'Keeffe. — as the morn when smiling on the hills ; 
earth, air, and sea with vernal joy she fills. T. Scott, in 
Dodsley's Collection. Brighter than the beams of the clear sun 
at morning, when he flings his showers of light upon the peach, 
or plays with the green leaves of June, and strives to dart into 
some great forest's heart, and scare the sylvan from voluptuous 
dreams. B. Cornwall. Bright as the morning's fresh expanded 
beam. W. Hawkins. Eyes, brighter than the orient beam. 
D. Hayes. — as a summer's morn when all the heaven is streaked 
with dappled fires. Play, Duke of Guise. — serenely bright like 
a summer's morn. G. Walker.* — as the virgin blushes of the 
morn. Southern. — as the blushes of the roseate morn. Mickles 
Lusiad. — as the lustre that waits on the morn. Jane West. 
Bright and beauteous as Aurora's ray, when from the east she 
gilds the new born day. A. Pasquin. — as morning from her 
Tithon's bed. Randolph. — as the morn from ocean's wavy 
bed. C. H. Johnson. — as the coming forth of the morning. 
Ossian. Brighter than the morning sky. F. Brooke, Poetical 
Calendar, 8$ others. — than the lucid spring. A. Seward. — than 
the shining spring. Ibid. Bright as morn in the sweet May. 
R. Shiel. Brighter than May's first morn. N. Lee. — than the 
burnished gates from whence Latona's lordly sun doth march, 
when mounted on his coach tinselled with flames he triumphs 
in the beauty of the heavens. Play, Orlando Furioso. Bright 
as clouds that deck the morning skies. Edinburgh Collection. 
— as the first sun when on the eastern shore he rises fresh and 
decks the infant day. C. Saunders. Brighter than the morn 



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whose orient beams the May adorn. G. Jeffreys, in Poetical 
Calendar. Bright as day. Chaucer, Spenser, fy others. — as 
a summer's day. Hughes. — as the rising day. R. Bloomfield. 
— as new-born day. Otway. — as the orb of day. Pope. — as 
day's eye. Weber's old metrical romances. — as the orient beam 
of day. Penrose. — as the orient day. — G. Murgatroyd. — as 
mid-day. A. Marvel. Brighter than the blaze of day. Caw- 
thorn. Shine bright as smiling day. G. Fletcher. Bright and 
aw*ful as the beam of day. Pye. — Shine as bright as sun by 
day, or moon by night. E. Ward. Bright seems the season as 
the new born spring when every flower puts forth its freshest 
fragrance, and infant nature breathes her sweets around. 
W. Hawkins. — as heaven. Otway, Ogilvie. — as high heaven. 
Waller. — as is the heaven crystalline. Play, Taming of a 
Shrew. Bright and merciful as heaven. Buckingham. — as the 
firmament. Sylvester. — as the sky. Spenser, Thomson. — as sum- 
mer skies. Landon. — as unclouded skies. C. Hopkins, in Dry- 
den's Miscellany. — as the summer. Goldsmith. Brighter than 
the smile of summer. A. L. Aikin. Bright as the world was in 
its infant years. Banks. — as light unclouded. Boyle, Earl of 
Orrery. Bright and piercing as the light. South. Bright and 
resistless as celestial light. Hodson. — as lightning. Hughes. 
His eyes are like the lightning bright. Alfieris Tragedies by C. 
Lloyd. Whose conceits are bright and vivid as the lightning. 
Sir W. Scott. — as Jove's dire bolts. Broome. As bright, as 
flaming as the bolt of Jove. Preston's App. Rhodius. Brighter 
than polished marble when reflecting light. Congreve. Bright 
like the streak of light in a cloud when the broad sun comes 
forth. Ossian. Bright as the lightning's blaze, the hero shone. 
Doyne's Tasso. More bright and beautiful than first created 
light. C. Davenant. Bright as the moon. G. Chapman, T. Forde, 
8f others.— as the moon she shone with silent light. Congreve. 
— as the lamp of night. Pope. — as the silver moon. Play, 
Pinder of Wakefield. — as silver Phoebe mounted on the high 
top of the ruddy element. R. Greene. Bright as shines the 
silver moon through the transparent bosom of the deep. Shake- 



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spear. Brighter than Cynthia's silver bow. C. Cotton. Se- 
renely bright as Cynthia's silver beams. J. Sterling. Bright 
as Cynthia burnishing the night. Durfey. — as Cynthia's beam 
that with soft lustre dances on the stream. Poem, Fragments 
of Fingal. — as the moon in autumn. Ossian. — as the moon on 
the western wave. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. — as the moon's 
refulgent beam. Southey. — as a star. Chaucer, J. Shirley, 8$ 
others. Benignly bright as stars to mariners. E. Young. 
Brighter than a blazing star. Somervile. Bright as the au- 
tumnal star. Blackmore. Brighter than any planet or star. 
Hughes. — not brighter shines by night the milky way. Poems 
on State Affairs. Bright as the silver star that leads the day. 
A. Seward. — as the star of evening. Akenside. — as the evening 
star. Play, Fickle Shepherdess. T. Killigrew. — as the morning 
star. Spenser, Dekker, fy others. — as the star of morn. Pollok. 
— as the star that leads the vernal morn. A. Seward. — like 
twinkling stars. Spenser. — like glistering stars. Sylvester. — 
as Sirius rising from the main. Preston's App. Rhodius. In 
the evening brighter far than the ocean-bathed star. Salma- 
gundy. Bright as that resplendent star that darts his light at 
close of day. Preston's App. Rhodius. More bright than is 
the starry senate of the night. Habington. Bright as stars are 
in a frosty night. Duke of Newcastle. Brighter than stars 
that twinkle in a winter's night. Dryden. Bright as the stars 
that gild the throne of night. G. Townsend. Brighter than 
the lamps of heaven. Play, Taming of a Shrew. C. Marlowe. 
Bright as the burning lamp of heaven. G. Peele. Brighter 
than all the stars that deck the heavens. Home. — than all the 
glittering train of nymphs that wait on Cynthia, when she 
takes her progress in pursuit of the swift enchased deer over 
the Cretan or Athenian hills, or when attended with those 
lesser stars, she treads the azure circle of the heavens. Mar- 
mion. — than Cynthia's shining train of stars. N. Rowe. — than 
Hesper's beam. Shenstone. Bright as Lucifer, Hesper, Ves- 
per. A. Brewer, J. Leanerd, fy others. — as Venus in her glit- 
tering sphere. Shakespear. — as Love's star when it riseth. 

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Jonson. A crown of flames brighter than that which Ariadne 
wears of fixed stars. J. Shirley. Bright as in that even when 
Ariadne crowned, was through the galaxy in pomp led, mil- 
lions of stars all burning o'er her head. T. Heywood. — as the 
immortal twins that grace the skies. Hughes. Bright mid 
these scenes of gloom, as spangled stars strown on the ebon 
throne of awful night. /. Dillon. Bright as the sky in 
a frosty night. Play, Roving Husband reclaimed. — as fire. 
Lidgate, G. Peele, Fanshaw. — as Eoan fire. Play, Untrussing 
of the Humorous Poet. — as the pillar rose at Heaven's com- 
mand, when Israel marched along the desert. Campbell. — 
as the pillar of sacred fire that stood above the sons of 
Israel when they camped at midnight by the foot of Horeb. 
Pollok. — as the wise men's torch which guided them to God's 
sweet babe when born at Bethlehem. Herrick. — as a blaze. 
Buckingham. — as flame. Psalms, by Brady 8$ Tate. — as a me- 
teor. Mr. May's King Asa, G. Walker. Bright and beau- 
tiful as May day. C. Burney. Bright and blooming as the 
spring. Buckingham. Brighter than the tears of morning. 
Sir W. Jones. Bright as the dew-drops on the thorn. Fawkes. 
— as drops of dew in a May morning. Sir W. Scott. — as the 
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain. 
Sacred Script. — as the bow of heaven. Ossian. — as the cove- 
nant-insuring bow. W. Cowper. — as the bow that spans the 
storm. Campbell. — as a rainbow on streams. Ossian. Brighter 
than Iris blushes after rain. Beaumont fy Fletcher. Bright and 
gay as shines the heavenly bow. Jenyns. Brighter than beam 
the rainbow hues of light, or than the evening glories which 
the sun slants o'er the moving many-colour'd sea. Southey. 
Bright as rainbow hues or dawning light. J. Wilson, author of 
Isle of Palms. — as innocence. /. Day. — as the hue of healthy 
innocence. G. Sewell. — as truth. Mallet. Play, Major Andre. 
as virtue. South, E. Moore. — as the tear in beauty's eye. 
Byron. Brighter than fame. Play, Heroic Friendship. Form, 
bright as angels'. Pix. — as an angel. Swift, Parnell, fy others. 
as a cherubim. Durfey. — as the eyes of angels. W. Thomp- 



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son. — as the eyes of seraphs. Ibid. — as young beauty's azure 
eye. R. Bloomfield. — as the wings of angels. J. Hervey. — as 
the queen of love. Play, The True Trojans. — as Venus. Mar- 
mion. — as a goddess. J. Banks, Dryden. — as Pandora, made 
by all the gods to allure the stubborn heart of the first man. 
C. Gildon. — as a God. L. Theobald, Sir W. Jones. Brighter 
art thou than flaming Jupiter when he appeared to hapless 
Semele. Marlowe. Bright and spotless as the golden lamps 
which burn before the sacred throne of Love. W. Thompson. — 
as gold. Chaucer, Lidgate, <fy others. — as gold from the refining 
flame, W. Mason. — as burnished gold. Play, Arraignment of 
Paris. Herrick, fy others. No gold nor orient pearl could look 
so bright. Harington. Bright as any silver. Play, Gammer 
Gurtoris Needle. Gower, ty others. — as polished silver. Pol- 
whele's Theocritus. Brighter than steel. Lidgate. Bright as 
brass. Fielding. — as a gemmed tiara. Sir W. Jones. — as dia- 
monds. G. E. Howard, Prince Hoare. — as young diamonds in 
their infant dew. Dryden. — as the sunny diamond's blaze. 
Jane West. — as polished stones. J. Watts. — as crystal. Gower, 
Dryden, 8$ others. — as glass. Chaucer, Gascoigne, fy others. — 
as shining glass. Fairfax. Bright and smooth as any looking- 
glass. Jonson. — as a ruby. S. Foote. More sanguine bright 
than the carbuncle. Harington. — as beryl. Ancient. Brighter 
than beryl or clear crystal. Play, Candlemas Day. Brighter 
than is the silver Rhodope. Marlowe. — as the eagle's eye. 
Shakespear. — as flowers of May. Play, Paragraph. — as the 
bloom of May. G. Keate. — as a lily. Sir W. Scott. — as the 
water lily. Shenstone. — as the lily of the vale. Sir W.Jones. — 
as the snow-clad lily. The Shamrock, a Collection of Poems. — 
as spring-blossoms after sunny showers. /. Wilson, author of 
Isle of Palms. — as butterflies. Byron. — as the dew. H. Carey. 
as the dewy lawn. /. Dillon. — as dew upon the hill. Chapman. 
as the dew-drop on the brow of morn. A. Seward. Tears, 
bright and pure as the dew of morning. Reine Canziani. — 
as snow. Shenstone, Sir W. Jones, fy others. Brighter than 

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mountain snows at noon. Southey. Bright as the new fallen 

snow. M.R.Mitford. 

More bright the tears by true affection shed, 

Than morning's tremulous gems of balmy dew, 

Gay twinkling on the violet's purple bed. John Bidlake. 

— as visions of expiring maids. Pope. 

BRIGHTEN like the day when sudden winds sweep scattered 
clouds away. Young. — as the Iris. Byron. Brighten in her 
presence as a rock before the sudden beams of the sun, when 
they issue from a broken cloud. Ossian. — like the full moon 
of heaven when the clouds vanish away and leave her calm and 
broad in the midst of the sky. Ibid. 

BRILLIANT as the sun. CawtJwrn. — like the morn. Lord 
Rokeby. — as a star. John Hanway. — as the morning star. G. 
Townsend. — as diamonds. Sir W. Scott. — as rain drops when 
the western sun sees his own miniature of beams in each. 
Montgomery. 

BRISK as Cupid. Lyttelton — as a dancing-master. Durfey. — 
as a snake in merry May, that just has cast his slough away. 
Somervile. — as bottled ale. Gay. Brisk and lively as a bird. 
E. Ward. — as a bee. R. Drury, J. Bickerstaff, fy others. — as 
the wanton winds that kiss the beauty of the blooming spring. 
Durfey. 

BRITTLE as glass. Chaucer, Shakespear, fy others. 

BROAD as day-light. South. — as a buckler or targe. Chaucer. 
— as Amazonian targe. Milton. An eye as broad as a buck- 
ler. A. Fraunce. — as a warrior's shield. Montgomery . — as the 
deluge. Mirandola. — Broader than the sea. Sacred Script. — 
Broad in his own dimensions as the sea. Glapthorne. — as barn 
doors. /. Heywood. Broad and deep as hell. /. Banks. 

BROKEN as the tumbling surges which the winds wake at ran- 
dom. Sir TV. Scott. 

BROWN in hue as hazel nuts. Shakespear. — as a berry. Chau- 
cer, G. Douglas, fy others. — as the hearth of kitchen fire. Gay. 



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BUD forth as a rose growing by the brook of the field. Eccle- 
siasticus. Budding like the purple May. Lord Thurlow. 

BURIED as deep as a funeral urn in a cold sepulchre. Sir W. 
Scott. 

BURN as a flame of fire. Sacred Script. — like fire. Lidgate, 
Wyatt, 8$ others. — like flaming fire. Lidgate. More fiercely 
burning than consuming fire. Sylvester. — like a red hot coal 
of fire. Bickerstaff, fy Foote. — like mines of sulphur. Shake- 
spear. — like Etna's fire. F. Beaumont. Burning like blazing 
Etna. G. Powell. Burn clear and constant like the source of 
day. J. Brown, in Dodsley's Collection. 

BURST like lightning from a cloud. R. Southey. — like lightning 
from an angry cloud. Play, The Revolution. Impatiently they 
wait to burst from their confinement, like imprisoned winds 
that storm indignant through their hollow caves, and labour 
for a vent. R. Barford. Burst like a hand grenade. Macnally. 
Bursting like the sun from ocean's lap. W. Hawkins. 

BUSY as a bee. Chaucer, Sidney, fy others. — as the industrious 
bee. Poole's Parnassus. 

BUXOM as the day. R. Bloomfield. 

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CACKLE like a hen. Gower. 

CALM as peace. Motteux, Blackmore, fy others. — as ease. T. 
Cooke. — as contentment. Charles Fox. — as peaceful seas that 
know no storms. JV. Rowe. — as the flood where the peace- 
loving halcyon deposits her brood. J. G. Cooper. — as the ocean 
whilst the halcyon brood get vital warmth upon the gentle 
flood. Play, Timoleon. — as when the halcyon builds her quiet 
nest. Dryden. — as the tranquil ocean when on the unruffled 
surface halcyons breed. Eliza Haywood, — as sleep. Marston, $ 



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Massinger. — as summer seas. Charlotte Charke. Breast, calm 
as summer's sea when waves forget to roll. John Clare.- — as 
seas when the winds sleep. Play, Fatal Union. — as the sleep- 
ing seas. Gay. — as the still waters when scarce a breath of 
wind curls the falling waves. Pix. Calm and unruffled as a 
summer sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. 
Addison. Serene, calm and unruffled, as the summer sea. 

F. North. He raves not now ; but like the southern blast, 
when lightnings cease and all the storm is o'er, grows calm 
again. Ajax, in Greek Tragic Theatre. — like summer seas 
that smile to heaven unruffled by a breeze. P. Pindar. Calm 
as ocean's stream when Amphitrite smiles. George Graham. — 
as runs the untroubled flood. S. Boyse. Glide calm as a gen* 
tie brook's unruffled tide. Hughes. — as the breast of the lake 
when the loud wind is laid. — Ossian. — as a standing lake. 

G. G. Douvilly. — as infants when they sleep. C. Davenant. 
Calmly as infants sleep. N. Tate. Calm as the slumbering 
infant. Emily, in Poetical Calendar. — as infants at the mother's 
breast. T. Yalden, in Dryderis Miscellany. — as a rocked in- 
fant. N. Lee. — as innocence. Byron. — as sleeping innocence. 
C. Johnson. — as innocence in sleep. J.Montgomery. — as virtue. 
Shakespear. — as forgiven saints at their last hour. Sir W. 
Davenant. Calmer than in their sleeps forgiven hermits are. 
Ibid. Die as calmly as a saint. Andrew Marvel, in Dry- 
dens Miscellany. — as night. C. Cotton, Watts. — as silent 
night. Thomson. — as evening skies. Ibid. — as summer even- 
ings be. Watts. — as day's most gentle close. Bernard Barton. 
— as clear evenings after vernal rains. J. Scott of Amwell. 
— as old Chaos ere his waves began to know a zephyr, or 
to feel a sun. Cawthom. Calm and gentle as love's soft whis- 
pers. Sir W. Davenant. Calm as happy lovers. Behn. — as the 
hushed air. /. JYilson, author of Isle of Palms. As Arabian 
winds. Sir W. Davenant. — as the breath which fans the east- 
ern groves. Dry den. — as eastern groves. Pix. Calm and spicy 
as is Arabia's gentle eastern breeze which fans and opens all 
the balmy sweets. /. Harris. More calm and gentle than the 



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cool wind that breathes upon the flowers soft kisses in the 
spring. /. Shirley. — as the western winds. Behn.-^-as the 
cloudless heaven. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as the 
fields of heaven. Campbell. — as death. Broome, C. Johnson. 
Calm and silent as the shades of death. B. Griffin. — as despair. 
Mirandola. — as a discharged culverin. Congreve. Calmly as 
the wounded patient bears the artist's hand that ministers his 
care. Otway. Calm is all nature as a resting wheel. Words- 
worth. 

CAPACIOUS. Flames, capacious as all hell's extent. W. 
Shirley. 

CAPRICIOUS as a spoiled child. Cumberland. — as the waver- 
ing wind. M. Robinson. 

CAREFUL as a guilty conscience. Cibber. 

CARELESSLY. Move carelessly as seamen walk a deck. Sir 
W. Davenant.—ELS hurls the moth her wing against the light 
wherein she dies. Byron. 

CARNATIONED like a sleeping infant's cheek. Byron. 
CATCHING as the plague. Dekker. — as drowzy yawning. E. 

Ward. 
CAUTIOUS as age. Play, Duke of Guise. G. Sewell. 

CHANGE like the wind. Play, London Prodigal. Sir W. Dave- 
nant, fy others. — as western wind. Harington. — as a weather- 
cock. Sir P. Sidney. A. Fraunce in England's Parnassus. — as 
the moon. Lidgate, Shakespear, pothers. — as a March day. Sir 
W. Scott. Like April days his passions change. James Ralph. 
Proteus-like you change your shape. Dryden. Change as 
the shadow. A. Hill. — like a dream. Sir W. Scott. 

CHANGEABLE as the wind. Centlivre, Dryden, ty others. — as 
an April day. John Baillie. An April day is less changeable 
than her humour. E. Moore. More changeable than Proteus. 
E. Irving. Not more changeable the dye quick shifting on the 
ring-dove's neck sidelong against the sun. Play, Palladius fy 
Irene. 



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CHANGEFUL as the wind. A. S. Cottle's Icelandic Poetry.— as 
air. Mrs. Brooke. — as the moon. Spenser. — as a child at play. 
Pope. — as the r pictures fashioned from clouds whose variegated 
borders o'erspread the vault of evening. Hodson. 

CERTAIN as fate. Old Plays, Spanish Gipsey, Herod % Anti- 
pater, Sf others. — as the unchanged edicts of Fate. Poole's Par- 
nassus. — as the stroke of death. Ibid. — as cold engendereth 
hail. Chaucer. 

CHAFE like a stag in the toil. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — like a 
lion in the toils betrayed. Smollett. 

CHARILY. Preserve more charily than eyesight, health, or thy 
senses. Play, Second Maidens Tragedy. 

CHARMING as a cherubin. Durfey. — as the Houris. S. Rous- 
seau's Flowers of Persian Literature. — as Nature's face in the 
new spring. Sedley. More charming than May. Poem, The 
Theriad. Charming as winter's shine, or summer's shade. 
Dryden's Miscellany. Eyes, charming as the sun's brightest 
rays in summer skies. Fielding. Charming as sunshine to the 
bee. Pope. — as the bubbling fountain to the thirsty swain. Ibid. 
Voice, charming as a syren's. T. Hurlstone. Charming as 
Venus rising from the sea. Play, Female Wits. 

CHASE away as a vision of the night. Sacred Scrijit., Sylvester. 
chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind. Sacred 
Script. 

CHASTE as truth. G. E. Howard. — as Diana. Greene, Shake- 
spear, 8$ others. — as Diana's thoughts. Play, Soliman and Per- 
seda. — as the virgin huntress of the woods. C. Johnson. — as 
Vesta. England's Parnassus. — as a vestal. Poetical Calendar, 
J. H. Stevenson. — as purest vestals are. Jane Wiseman. No 
vestal that preserved with quickening oil the sacred flame, was 
in her chastity more cold, more timorous than she. Sir W. 
Davenant. Chaste and holy as the vestal rites. Centlivre. I 
have loved you with a flame chaste as vestal fire. N^ Tate, 
Chaste as a virgin. Beaumont 8f Fletcher. Chaste by virtue, 



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as is the new-born virgin. Play, Queen. Chaste as when she 
was new born. Garrick. — like infants. Mrs. S. Gunning. — as 
unborn infants. Play, Hector of Germany. — as babes new 
born. R. Bourne. As chaste from any sinful act, as when we 
were first mantled after birth. J. Shirley. Chaste as the first 
voice of a new-born infant. Marston. — as infant dreams. C. 
Johnson. — as the untainted thoughts of infancy. Southern. — as 
a nun. E. Ward. — as the veiled nun. Bp. Hall. — as a reli- 
gious nun. D. Craufurd. Chaste and religious as the virgin 
nun. G. G. Douvilly. — as the nun's first vow. Poole's Par- 
nassus. — as the vows of nuns, or anchorite's prayer. Ibid. — as 
cloistered saints. Mrs. Cowley. Chaste in my thoughts as un- 
spotted virginity itself. R. Head- — as angels are. Behn. — as 
the purest angel of the sky. R. Dodsley. — as Eve, ere she 
blushed. Theophila. — as Penelope. Barclay, Marlowe. — asLu- 
cretia. Gay. — as the first Lucretia was. Fielding. — as Camilla. 
E. Smith. Chaste like bashful cold Eurydice. Sir W. Da- 
venant. — as Salmacis amidst the streams. Marmion. — as Jove's 
wise child. Moses Mendez. — as the moon. T. Heywood. — as 
the white moon. Marlowe. — as the silver white beams of the 
moon. J. G. Cooper. More chaste and fair than is the queen of 
shades. Play, Edward the Third. — than the queen of night. — 
Swift. Chaste as Cynthia. M. Pilkington. — as Cynthia's beams. 
Poetical Miscellany. — as Cynthia's breast. Dekker. — as cold 
Cynthia's virgin light. Pope, Sheffield Duke of Buckingham. 
— as light. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Pomfret. — as the virgin light. 
J. Banks. — as the light of heaven. The Robbers, a Play from 
Schiller. — as the new-born day. Centlivre. — as the morn. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as the blushes of the dewy morn. C. 
Goring. — as the bashful morn. Poole's Parnassus. Chaster 
than is the morning's modesty that rises with a blush, over 
whose bosom the western wind creeps softly. R. Davenport. 
Chaste as the air. Poole's Parnassus. — as the breath of heaven, 
or morning's womb that brings the day forth. Middleton, fy 
Rowley. — as the dew-drop. G. Walker. — as morning dew. E. 
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sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. Ibid. — as the 
sweet morning dew that loads the heads of drooping flowers. 
Randolph. — as the morning pearls dropt in the lily's spotless 
bosom. W. Chamberlaine. — as the unblown bud. Poole's Par- 
nassus. — as is the bud ere it be blown. Shahespear. — as is the 
rose ere it be blown. Miller. — as flowers in bud. C. Johnson. 
= — as buds of roses ere the winds have kissed them. Centlivre. 
The unblown rose, the mines of crystal, nor the diamond, are 
half so chaste, so pure, so innocent. Play, Herod and Anti- 
pater. — as the maiden blossoms of a rose. Poole's Parnassus. 
Chaste and unsullied as first opening lilies, or untouched buds. 
Suckling. — as untouched lilies. Dryden's Miscellany. — as the 
unsullied lily. /. Corye. — as virgin lilies in their infancy. 
Rawlins. The lily opening to the heaven's soft dews was not 
so fragrant, and was not so chaste. H. More. Chaster than 
lilies clad in summer fragrance. W. Thompson. Chaste as is 
Apollo's tree. /. Lilly. — as that plant which scarce suffers to 
be touched. C. Turner. Chaste and free as spring. Beaumont 
fy Fletcher. Chaster than the virgin spring, ere her blossoms 
she doth bring. Recreation for ingenious Headpieces. Chaste 
as winter. Habington. — as winter's night. N. Lee. — as ice. 
Shahespear, Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, fy others. — as the icicle 
that's curdled by the frost from purest snow, and hangs on 
Dian's temple. Shahespear.— as icicles. Play, The Spaniards. 
More clearly chaste than ice or frozen rain. Marston. Chaste 
as unsunned snow. Shahespear, Durfey, fy others. — as the con- 
secrated snow that lies in Dian's lap. Shahespear. — as mountain 
snows. Dodsley's Collection. Chaste and pure as purest snow. 
Spenser. Chaster and purer than the virgin snow. Banks. 
Chaste as the fanned snow twice bolted o'er by the bleak 
northern blasts. N. Lee. — as trembling snow, whose fleeces 
clothe the Alpine hills. J. Shirley. — as the white down of 
heaven, whose feathers play upon the wings of a cold winter's 
gale, trembling with fear to touch the impurer earth. Ibid. 
— as falling snows. Mrs. Brooke, T. Cooke. — as spirits' joys. 
Dryden. — as maids' sighs. Gildon. — as holy love. Mrs. S. 



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Gunning.- — as sisters' love, when coldly they return a brother's 
kiss. Gildon. Chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers. 
Randolph. Chaste as turtle doves. C. Cotton. — as the eyes of 
turtles. Poole's Parnassus. — as the phcenix. Durfey, R. WiU 
kinson. — as the Arabian bird that wants a sex to woo. Sir W. 
Davenant. — as the emerald. Pix. — as the hardened rock. 
Poolers Parnassus. — as crystal. J. Shirley. — chaster than cry- 
stal on the Scythian cliffs. C. Johnson. Chaster than cold 
camphire. Beaumont fy Fletcher. 

CHATTER like a crane. Sacred Script. — like a swallow. Ibid. 
— like a pye. Johnson. — a jay. FawJces. — a parrot. C. Shaw. 
— a magpie. Burgoyne, J. Baillie. — an ape. Play, Prodigal, 
or Marriage a la mode. 

CHEAP as lies. Shakespear. — as dust. Chapman. — as a cracked 
china cup. Fielding. — as a last year's almanac. G. Soane. 

CHEER like the first dawn of light. C. Johnson. — like the sun. 
Play, Edward the Third. Cheering as the solar beam. Dods- 
ley's Collection. More cheering than the sunny ray. M. Pil- 
Jcington. — than breath of infant spring. Ibid. — like the re- 
freshing breezes of the spring. A. Bichnell. Cheering as 
earth's soft verdure to the eye. J. Wilson, author of Isle of 
Palms. 

CHEERFUL as the day. W. Cowper, J. G. Cooper, $ others. — 
as the morn. /. Shirley. — as the lively morn. /. Armstrong. 
— as the morning's light. Sir W. Davenant. — as dawning light. 
Hughes, — as a May day morning. Gibber. — as the sun-beams 
after night. Play, The Apostate. — as a sunny May morning. 
Play, Right and Wrong. — as the rising sun in May. Words- 
worth. More cheerful than a vernal morn. Savage. Cheerful 
and serene as when first morning smiles upon the world. Milton. 
— as the birds that welcome in the day. Behn. — as the birds 
that wake the morn. Dryden. Cheerfully as birds salute the 
morn after a cold, long, stormy, winter night. Southern. 
Cheerful like clear Aurora, when she doth appear in brightest 
robes to make a glorious day. Tethys* Festival. In the gay 



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spring of life, when every note was as the mounting lark's, 
merry and cheerful to salute the morn. Southern. Cheerfully as 
the soaring lark wakes the gay morn. Settle. More cheerful 
than the lambs that frisk the green. Ward's Gentle Shepherd. 
Her smiles were cheerful as enlivening May. M. Leapor. — as 
the spring. Play, Fatal Discovery. — as April suns. Play, Ro- 
mulus fy Hersilia. — as summer's noon. N. Lee. — as the linnet's 
lays. M. Bruce. — as children climb the breasts of mothers. 
Byron. — as victors warm in their success. Sir W. Davenant. 

CHERISH her like life. J. Dennis. 

CHILL and surly as the northern blast. T. Morton. 

CHOLERIC as a cook by a fire-side. Dryden. 

CHURLISH as the seas. Herrick. — as a bear. Shakespear. — as 
a hog. Jonson. 

CIRCULAR as heaven. Dryden 's Miscellany . 

CIRCUMSPECT as Cynthia. Chapman. 

CLAMOROUS as a parrot against rain. Shakespear. — as nestling 
birds. </. Montgomery. 

CLAMMY and damp as earth. Otway. — like the damps of mid- 
night sepulchres. W. Thompson. 

CLASP like ivy. Donne. As the youthful ivy clasps an aged 
elm. Pamell. 

CLEAN as any pearl. Play, Jacob and Esau. — as a penny. Gay. 

CLEAR as the sun. Sacred Script., Sir P. Sydney, fy others. — 
as was the sun's new face in his first sphere. Sir TV. Davenant. 
— as summer suns. W. Thompson. Clear and spotless as the 
brightest sunshine. G. S. Green. — as day. Shakespear, Chap- 
man, fy others. I will make it as clear to you as the sun in 
his meridian. T. Dibdin. Truth, clear as even the mid-day 
sun. Play, School for Ingratitude. — as the noon sun. Play, 
Mercurius Britannicus. — as the sun at noon-day. Tillotson, 
Centlivre. Clearly as the sun shines at noon-day. Tillotson. 
Clear and unsullied as the noon-day sun. Cawthorn.- — as the 



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noon-day sun. Miscellany of Poems by J. Husbands, J. Baillie. 
— as the sun at noon. Poetical Calendar, J. H. Stevenson. — 
as the noon day. R. Baron, Atterbury, ty others. — as the bright 
noon-tide heavens. Milman. — as mid day. Donne. — as light, 
Jonson, Middleton, fy others. Clear and pure as heaven's 
light. Duchess of Newcastle. Clear and open as the summer's 
light. C. Philips. — as day light. A '. Murphy, Cumberland, fy 
others. — as unpolluted light. R. Barford. — as Aurora, when 
she doth appear in brightest robes to make a glorious day. S. 
Daniel. Look clear and fresh as the morning. Jonson. — as 
noon-day light. G. E. Howard. — as the noon- tide light. Earl 
of Carlisle. — as moon light. Chaucer. — as the sky. Spenser, 
Wordsworth. Clear without spot as summer's cloudless sky. 
W. Melmoth. Clear as the skies when their blue depths are 
cloudless. J. Wilson, Author of Isle of Palms. Clear and open 
as a shadeless sky. Landon. — as heaven. /. Shirley. — as open- 
ing heaven. /. Harris. — as the crystal heaven. Ibid. — as 
heaven's unclouded brow. Henry Vaughan. — as the cloudless 
heavens. JohnBowring. — as air. Recreation for ingenious Head- 
pieces. — as summer evenings. Duchess of Newcastle. — as stars. 
Donne. My thoughts are clearer than unclouded stars. Dryden. 
Seen as clear as is the pole star, when no envious cloud ob- 
structs its view. Play, Codrus. — as great Delia's horned bow. 
Play, The True Trojans. Clear (guiltless) as is the babe new 
born. Armin. Clear as the child to be born, of this which 
he accuseth me. R. Bernard. — as innocence. Beaumont fy 
Fletcher, Play, Valiant Scot, 8$ others. Clearer than the inno- 
cence of infants. Play, Game of Chess. Clear as harmless 
innocence. C. Turner. — as chastity. Ibid. — as justice. Savage. 
— as truth. Play, Don John. She looks as clear as morning 
roses newly washed with dew. Shakespear. Clear as rain- 
drops ere they touch the earth. M. G. Lewis. — as glass. Ha- 
rington, H. Vaughan, <J others. — as shining glass. W. Thomp- 
son. — as crystal glass. Spenser, J. Day. Clear and transpa- 
rent as the purest glass. Chapman. — as a mirror. Grainger. 
— as crystal. Sacred Script., Barclay, ty others. — as crystal 



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stone. Spenser. — as rock crystal. Arabian Nights Entertain- 
ment. Clearer than crystal rock. Lilly. — than the pure cry- 
stal. John Hanway. Clear as fair crystal. Cowley. — as spot- 
less crystal. J. Wilson. Clear and transparent as crystal. 
Arabian Nights Entertainment. — as springs. N. Field. — as 
limpid springs. Collins. Clearer than mountain springs. C. 
Philips. Clear as a brook. Sir W. Jones. — as gravel brook. 
Play, King John. — as a brook, whose crystal lips salute only 
the freshest meadows. Glapthorne. Run clear and smooth as 
crystal brooks. Duchess of Newcastle. — as founts in July. 
Shakespear. Clearer than Diana's fount. Beaumont § Fletcher. 
Clear as sacred fountains. M. Pilkington. Clearer than ice, 
or running streams that stray through garden plots. Dryden. — 
than the limpid stream. J. Hervey. Clear as a crystal stream. 
W. Earle. The purest spring is not so free from mud as I 
am clear from treason to my sovereign. Shakespear. — as a trout 
stream. S. Foote. — as the diamond spark. Sir W. Scott. — as 
any beryl. Lidgate. More clear than fair orient pearl, fetched 
from the farthest Inde. D. Belchier. Clear as amber. Churchill. 
— as air. F. Beaumont. — as a carter's eye. Play, the Puritan. 
Voice clear as that of angels. Dekker. Sing as skylark clear. 
L. Macnally. Brow, clear as ivory. J. Aikin. 

CLING like ivy. Play, Apparition. — like ivy to the oak. Jonson. 

CLOSE as your own thoughts. T. Heywood. — as beggary to a 
prodigal. /. Kirk. — as the skin to the flesh, or as the flesh to 
the bone. Rawlins. — as a confessor. Congreve. — as the Ma- 
cedonian phalanx. Swift. — as oak. Shakespear, Murphy, fy 
others. — as an uncracked nut. Play, All Vows kept. — as a 
cockle. Jonson, Beaumont fy Fletcher, fy others. — as shells 
of cockles meet. Jonson. — as a cockle shell. Durfey. Stick as 
close together as the two shells of an oyster. L. Macnally. 
Lock them fast, close, and silent, as the jaws of death. 
Southern. The secret is kept as close as night. Murphy. 
Keep as close to him as shadow to substance. Sir W. Scott. 
Lie as close as a man in a proclamation. Southern. Lie close 



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as sleeping serpents. Sir F. Fane. This vanity sticks close, 
like ivy to the noblest plants, Ibid. Close as a vice. P. Pindar. 
— as a supple courtier to a king. Ibid. — as an old miser's 
coffers. Play, Unfortunate Usurper. — as Arethusa hides her 
streams. J. Smith. 

CLOUDED like dark night. Duchess of Newcastle. 

COILED like a boa in the wood. Byron. 

COLD as winter. Drayton, Banks, fy others. — as winter blasts. 
Banks.— as the breath of winter. Poole's Parnassus. — as winter's 
chilly day-break. R. Shiel. — as winter nights. Behn. Colder 
than the wintry starry nights. A. Hill. Cold as winter's 
snow. Rawlins. — as winter snows. Carew, Pope. — as nipping 
wintry frost. C. Marsh. Cold and charitiless as winter frosts. 
Pix. — as the hairs of winter. /. Shirley. — as December. H. 
H. Milman. — as a December's night. G. Soane — as ice. Tur- 
bervile, Harington, fy others. Cold as mountain ice, which the 
north winds congeal to purest crystal. Poole's Parnassus. 
Colder than an icicle. J. Wilson, Author of Isle of Palms. 
Cold as northern icicles. Durfey. — as the icicles of severest 
winter. Gildon. — as frozen drop of wintry dew. Sir W. Scott. 
— as the icicle on carved stone. Landon. Cold and heavy as 
a rock of ice. N. Field. Cold as any frost. Chaucer. — as a 
northern congelation. G. G. Douvilly. — as snow. Beaumont 8$ 
Fletcher, Suckling, 8$ others. — as a snow-ball. Play, Pericles 
Prince of Tyre. Lillo. — -as falling snow. Dryden. As the blast 
from Boreal snow. Thomson. Colder than the mountain's 
snow. Crown, Centlivre. — than snow on Scythian mountains. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher. — than Thracian snows. E. Young. — 
than Friezeland snow. A. Brewer. Cold and chaste as northern 
snow. Sir W, Davenant. Cold and unsullied as the mountain 
snow. Madan. Cold as the bleak northern winds upon the 
face of winter. Play, Merry Devil of Edmonton. — as glaciated 
snow on the bleak Euxine promontory. Douvilly. — as the 
snowy Alps. N. Richards. — as Alpine snow. G. Sandys, G. 
Powell, 8$ others. Cold as the white head of the Appenine. 



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Play, Muleasses the Turk, Cold as the proud tops of those 
aspiring hills, whose heads are wrapt in everlasting snow, 
though the hot sun roll o'er them every day. Play, Valentinian. 
— as snow on tallest hills. Mrs. Manley. — as snow or hail 
dissolved. Chapman. — as an ice-house. T. Morton. — as the 
North. Glapthome, Powell. — as northern blasts. Prior. Colder 
of comfort than the frozen north is. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — 
as the regions of the frozen north. J. Oldmixon. — as the 
frozen zone. Poole s Parnassus. — as old Saturn. Beaumont 8$ 
Fletcher. — as the Northern star. Vanbrugh. — as the middle 
region of the air. Marmion. — as the wave of Hebrus' wintry 
breast. Langhorne. — as Stygian water. Chapman. — as the 
frozen stream. Banks. Cold and chaste as is the Northern 
ocean, when winter locks its frozen bosom up, against the ma- 
riner's invading oar. James Miller. Cold was her brow, and 
pallid was her cheek as ocean's foam. James Bird. — as the dew 
the stone distils. Glapthome. — as the falling dews. A.Seward. 
— as death. Plays, Landgartha, Mother Shipton. E. Young, fy 
others. — as the hand of death. Dryden. — as the bed of death. 
Otway. — as the dew of death. N. Lee. Colder than the grave. 
Ibid. Cold as charity. Quarles, L. E chard. Appear as 
cold as great ones when Merit begs. Otway. — as age. Settle, 
Duke of Guise. — as a frown. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. — as 
the Thracian shepherdess that tends her harmless flocks on 
the bleak mountain's top covered with snow, that feeds on 
roots and herbs, and drinks the icy brook. R. Hurst. — as the 
chastest vestal. Ibid. Colder than fountains. C. Lennox. 
Cold as a well. Chaucer. — as a stone. Chaucer, Lidgate, 8$ 
others. — as the feet of rocks. Sir W. Davenant — as marble. 
Tatham, Gildon, and others. Than marble more cold and 
more pale. The Minstrel, a poem. Cold and white as marble. 
Cornwall, 8$ others. — as marble tombs. Mrs. Manley. — as any 
marble stone. Turbervile, H. Carey. — as a marble monument. 
Settle. Cold and hard as a marble pillar. Haring+on. — as 
crystal. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, Poetical Miscellany. Cold and 
hardened as the virgin crystal. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as 






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clay. Play, How to choose a good Wife. N. Cotton, fy others. — 
as earth. T. Bayly, T. Porter, fy others. — as the earth he lies 
on, and as dull too. Play, Fatal Union. — as lead. Alex. Bar- 
clay, T. Heywood, fy others. — as an asp. HooWs Ariosto. 
Colder than salamanders. Donne. Than a mountain Musco- 
vite more cold. Sir W. Davenant. Colder to me than adamant 
to fire. Otway. Cold as a cucumber. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, 
L. Sharp, 8f others. — as a fish. Sir W. Davenant. — as Aquarius. 
W. Rowley. — as the virgin moon. Colman Jun. 

COMELY as rising day. Otway. Comelier than the silver 
clouds that dance on zephyrs' wings before the King of heaven. 
G. Peele. — as the well spread cedar. R. Davenport. — as the 
dewy rose. Pitt, Oxford Sausage. 

COMFORTABLE as rest to weary men. Barclay. 

COMFORTING as breaking light. Sir W. Davenant. 

COMFORTLESS as frozen water to a starved snake. Shake- 
spear. 

COMMAND like law. Donne. Commanding as the breath of 
kings. N. Rowe. Speak as commanding as a constable at 
midnight. R. Taylor. 

COMMISERATE as pitying angels. Jane Wiseman. 

COMMON as the air. Chapman, Lansdowne, § others. — as vital 
air. J. Crowne. — as the air which we breathe. Play, Unfor- 
tunate Usurper. — as the light. Crowne, Dryden. — as light or 
air. G. Sandys. — as the light or air in which we breathe and 
live. Watts. — as the day. T. Goff. — as sickness. J. Webster. 
— as for a man who feels pain to fancy that he could bear it 
better in any other part. Dr. Johnson. — as the street. John 
Gower. — as a cart-way. Pierce Plowman's Vision. — as the way 
between St. Albans and London. Shakespear. — as the stairs 
that mount the Capitol. Shakespear, Durfey. — as Westmin- 
ster-hall. PasauiVs Nightcap. — as dirt. Fielding. — as the 
dust. Ibid. — as the tainted shambles, or the dust we tread. 
Drijden. — as bees in Hybla. Lilly. — as hares in Atho. Ibid. 

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— as fowls in the air. Ibid. — as fishes. F. Boothby. — as the 
winds. Sir W. Davenant. — as the sand. Sylvester. — as glasses 
in taverns. H. Shirley. — as any tavern door. Play, The Fleir. 
— as a barber's glass. Suckling. 

CONCENTRATE like rays into one focus. Byron. 

CONFIDENT as justice. Beaumont ty Fletcher. — as Jove. Jonson. 
— as Hercules. Marston. — as the falcon's flight against a bird. 
Shakespear. — as day. Duchess of Newcastle. 

CONFORMABLE as the melting wax to the impressed seal. — 
J. Hervey. 

CONFUSION worse than Babel. J. H. Stevenson. 

CONSPICUOUS as the brightness of a star. W. Cowper. More 
conspicuous even than the sun in clearest majesty. B. Barnes. 
— as the sun at noon day. 0. S. Wandesford. — as substance. 
Shakespear. More conspicuous than pyramids. Dr. Johnson. 

CONSTANT as the sun. N. Field. — as the sun that keeps its 
course, though storms and tempests vex the nether sky, and 
lowering clouds awhile obscure his brightness. Lillo. — as the 
day. Watts, fy others. — as light. Mrs. Brooke. — as the morn. 
G. Fitzgerald. — as the heavens. Tillotson. — as the northern 
star. Durfey. — as the northern star, of whose true, fixed, and 
resting quality, there is no fellow in the firmament. Shake- 
spear. — as the stars that never move. Otway. — as the stars 
that never vary. Mirandola. — as the centre. Chapman, J. Day. 
— as the needle to the adamant. Dekker. — as the needle to the 
pole. Henry Siddons. The needle is not more constant to the 
north. J. Shirley, Pilon. — as the returning sun, the fixed stars, 
or the needle to its pole. Play, Fickle Shepherdess. — as tides, 
E. Young. — as gliding waters roll, whose swelling tides obey 
the moon. B. Booth. — as the dove. Poetical Calendar, The Dupe, 
8$ others. — as a turtle. A. Portal. — as the turtle-dove. Durfey, 
— as pining turtles. N. Lee. — as the turtle to its mate. Banks, 
ty others. Constant and true as the widowed dove. Sir W. Scott. 
—as Penelope. Devices of sundry Gentlemen, Play, Wily 



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beguiled, fy others. — as Penelope to her mate. Gascoigne. — as 
Lucretia. J. Day. — as courage to the brave. N. Lee. — as the 
diamond's standing light. Tate. Constant as Jove the night 
and day bestows. Pope. — as the wheels of time. TV. Cowper. 
More constant than miser to his gold. Peaps. — as truth. 
Gildon. — as dying martyrs. C. Johnson. — as holy faith. /. B. 
Burges. 

CONTAGIOUS. More contagious than the plague. Lidgate. 

CONTEND together, like gales of spring, as they fly along the 
hill, and bend by turns the feebly whistling grass. Ossian. 

CONTENT as saints in visions. C. Philips. 

CONTRARY as light to darkness. South, Tillotson. — as white 
is to black. Chapman. — as black to white. C. Butler. Con- 
trary and opposite as yea and nay, as black and purest white. 
Quarles. — as sloth is to virtuous business. Lidgate. 

CONVINCING as any demonstration in the mathematics. 
South. 

COOL as Christmas. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as virgin snow. 
Henry Vaughan. — as the blast that checks the budding spring. 
Farmer's Boy. — as breath of vernal air from snowy Alp. Milton. 
— as the grot of Thetis, hid beneath the vaulted ocean. Glover. 
— as morning dew. /. Smith. Cool and translucent as the 
gushing rill. Preston's App. Rhodius. — as night. A. Marvel, 
Cawthorn. — as patience. Otway. — as charity. Play, Neglected 
Virtue. — as age. Cawthorn. — as a sage's morning contempla- 
tion. TV. Thompson. — as a cucumber. Gay, Macnally. 

COPIOUS as bounty. Savage. Copious and rich as Pactolus. 

Young Hypocrite, in Footers Comic Theatre. 

CORAL as Aurora's cheek. Play, Costly Whore. 

COUCH like spaniels. Dryden. — as a lion. Sacred Script. 
Couching as a rated hound. Sir TV. Scott. 

COVETOUS as Demas. South. 

COUNTLESS as the rays of light. Savage. — as sun-beams. 

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Montgomery. — as the sand. Parnell. — as the sea-side sands. 
W. Cowper. — as the sea-beat sand. A. Cherry. 

COURAGEOUS as Hercules. Play, Love A-la-mode. 

COURTEOUS as a friend. W. Cowper. — as monarch the morn 
he is crowned. Sir W. Scott. 

COY as a maid. Chaucer. — as Daphne. J. Smith. More coy 
than a wanton kid. Fraunce. — as the plant that shrinks at the 
approach of man. Poole's Parnassus. 

CRAFTY as a fox. Corye. 

CRAGGY as the Alps. Play, Valiant Welshman. 

CRANK as a peacock. Medwall. 

CRAWL like snails. E. Ward. 

CREEP like shadows by him. Shakespear. Creep close as 
snake in hidden weeds. Spenser. — like a boy after a butterfly. 
Duffet. — like a snail. Two Harlequins, a Farce. 

CRIMSON as the morning sky. Landon. — as a sunset hour. Ibid. 

CROAK like a raven. Shakespear, Dekker. 

CROOKED as the crescent. Sheridan. — as a chestnut bough. 
Sir W. Davenant. 

CROUCH like a cur. Duchess of Newcastle. — like a cur taken 
worrying sheep. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — like chastened hound. 
Sir W. Scott. — like a whelp awed by the heaving of his 
master's hand. Rawlins. 

CROUDING like the waves of ocean. Byron. Crouding thick 
as flowers that play in summer winds. Moore. 

CROW like chanticleer. Shakespear. 

CRUEL as death. Chapman, Broome, fy others. — as . the grave. 
Sacred Script., South, 8$ others. — as the ocean when it raves. 
Fanshaw. More cruel than the main. Lansdo?vne. More 
cruel than a winter storm. Oldmixon. Cruel as the winds in 
March. Sir W. Davenant. — as Caligula. Fielding. — as Pro- 
crustes. E. Smith. — as a tiger. Sir P. Sidney, $• others. — as 









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a tiger or bear. Play, Gentleman Cit, in Footers Theatre. More 
cruel than leopards, lions, tigers, wolves. Otrvay. Cruel as 
tigers o'er their trembling prey. Ibid. More cruel than the 
tiger o'er his spoil. Dryden. — than wild tigers. Duchess of 
Newcastle. — than bears. G. Sandys. More cruel than even- 
ing beasts that creep from savage den. Play, Youth's Comedy. 
— than Scylla, or the syrens. Gildon. 

CUNNING as serpents. Farquhar. — as a witch. Play, The Ball. 
— as a travelled spy. Sir W. Davenant. — as a monkey. T. 
Ward. — as foxes. E. Ward, T. 



CURRENT as the air. Randolph, H. Dell. 
CURVED like the crescent moon. Southey. 
CUT down like poppies by the reaper's hand. Lansdowne. 



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DANCE like a kid. Sir W. Davenant. — like the ocean spray. 
Landon. 

DANGEROUS as infection. J. Ford. More dangerous than 
shoals and rocks. A. Hill. Dangerous as baits to fish. Shake- 
spear. 



More dangerous than rocks or seas. Dennis. 



DARE like a foolish fly, whose vexing wings urge the slow flame 
to burn her as she sings. N. Lee. Yet like a rock, both sea 
and winds I'll dare. Ibid. Daring as despair. Sewell. 

DARK as hell. Studley, Spenser, fy others. Dark and obscure 
as hell. Randolph. Dark and profound as hell. Lillo. Darker 
than Acheron. Poole's Parnassus. Dark as Erebus. Shake- 
spear. — as despair. Settle. — as ignorance. Shakespear, Savage. 
— as night. Lidgate, Shakespear, 8$ others. — as gloomy night. 
Sir T. Moore. — as the sullen night. Poole's Parnassus. — as 
ebon night. W. Churchey. — as the womb of night. /. Shirley. 
— as midnight. Habington, A. Hill, Sf others. — as a December 






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midnight. D. Terry. — as meridian night. Darwin's Botanic 
Garden. Darker than pitchy sable night. T. Heywood. Dark 
as the Egyptian night. Poole 's Parnassus. Darker than black- 
ness. Donne. Dark as if the funeral of light were celebrated 
there. Sir TV. Davenant. — as the grave. A. Cowley. Play, 
The Rape, ty others. Dark and silent as the grave. J. Corye. 
Dark and gloomy as the grave, N. Rowe. Dark as the dark- 
ness of the grave. Sir TV. Scott. — as the hushed silence of the 
grave. Otway. Dark as the night that veils the tomb. /. 
Bird. — as death. Cumberland. Dark and drear as death. Play, 
Fair Circassian. — as the mansions of the dead. Psalms, by 
Brady 8$ Tate. — as the drowzy mansion-house of sleep. Poole's 
Parnassus. — as a wolf's mouth. Sir TV. Scott. — as a dungeon. 
Jonson. — as a dungeon in which no beam of comfort enters. 
Massinger. — as winter. Campbell. — as a cloud. Fragments 
of Ancient Poetry. — as a thunder cloud. Montgomery, Landon, 
Sf others. — as the vapours gathering storms compose. Trans- 
lation of Voltaire's Henriade. Darken like clouds, whose 
shadows o'er the landscape sail. Montgomery. Dark like the 
sun, when he carries a cloud on his face. Ossian. — as the 
troubled face of the moon, when it foretells the storms. Ibid. 
— as the evening storm. M. R, Mitford. — as gathering tem- 
pests, wrapt in midnight gloom. Boyd. Dark and gloomy as 
the ocean on a cloudy day. Virgin of the Sun, Play from 
Kotzebue. Dark and troubled as Cretan seas, when vexed 
by warring winds. Smith. Dark as a raven. Colman. — as the 
raven's wing. Ossian. — as the raven's plumage. Sir TV. Scott. 
— as Ethiops. E. Young. — as an oven. Fraunce. — as any coal. 
Garth. — as pitch. Chaucer, Sidney, 8? others. — as jet. Dryden's 
Miscellany. Dark and cold as a Greenland midnight. /. 
O'Keeffe. 

DARKNESS thick as ill met clouds can make. Sir TV. Davenant. 

DART like light. B. Martyn. — like lightning. C. Johnson, So- 
mervile. — like the bolt of Jove. Countess of Winchilsea. — like 
lightning from a summer's cloud. Sir TV. Scott. — like a shoot- 



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ing star. Byron. — like a sun-beam. James Ralph, Manley, 
fy others. Meteor-like, the gleam darts through the void. G. 
Keate. Darting as Apollo's beams. Duchess of Newcastle. 
Dart like the deer before the hounds. Sir W, Scott. — like the 
dolphin from the shark. Ibid. Dart down as swift as a hawk 
upon a partridge. C. Bumaby. 

DASH like waves against the shore. Watts. Dash down like 
an Alpine cataract of snow. Montgomery. Dashed on like a 
spurred blood-horse in a race. Byron. 

DAUNTLESS as death. Prior. — as the strong pounced bird of 
Jove. Grainger. 

DAZZLE like the sun. Play, Edward the Third. H. Killigrew, 
fy others. — like a cloudless sun. Pope. — like the sun in his me- 
ridian. Shadwell. Thus, like the sun encircled with his beams, 
he dazzles with excess of light. Ravenscroft. More dazzling 
to behold than orient suns, that dawn in ruddy gold. Preston's 
App. Rhodius. Dazzling as the light. Pope, Cawthorn. Daz- 
zling like the break of morn. /. Wilson, Author of Isle of 
Palms. Dazzling as a bright dagger suddenly unsheathed. 
Specimens of Hindoo Literature, by N. E. Kinder sley. 

DEAD as earth. Shakespear. — as clay. Otway. — as a stone. 
Chaucer, fy others. — as a door-nail. Shakespear, T. Shadwell, 
ty others. — as a herring. Play, Landgartha. Nabbs, fy others. 
as a stock-fish. Otway. — as a monument. Sir W. Davenant. 
Play, Merry Milk-maids of Islington. 

DEADLY as the sting of satire. Cawthorn. — as the baleful 
flood of Acheron or Styx. Doyne's Tasso. Poison, more 
deadly than a mad dog's tooth. Shakespear. Deadly as the 
basilisk. R. Greene. — as the eye of basilisk. John Gait. 

DEAF as death. Duchess of Newcastle, N. Lee, fy others. Deaf 
to intercession as the ear of death. E. Irving. — as the dead. 
N. Lee, S. Foote. — as the sea, Shakespear, Fraunce, ty others. — 
as the stormy sea. Tate. — as the remorseless sea. Corye. More 
deaf to prayers than winds and seas. Milton. Deaf as winds 



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and seas are to the sailor's prayers. Wandesford. Deaf to 
my prayers, as seas and winds to sinking mariners. Dryden. 
Deaf as the storm to sinking virtue's groan. Brown. — as a 
stone. Turbervile, Stevenson. — as rocks. Turbervile, J. Shirley, 
<$■ others. Deaf as rocks unto the billowing surges of the sea. 
Play, Bastard. Deaf as the wind, and as the rocks unshaken. 
Otway. — as the rocks, or winds, or raging seas. Gildon. — as 
seas and rocks. Bedloe. — as a storm. C. Davenant, Lans- 
downe, §* others. Deaf and inexorable as a storm. Bevil 
Higgons. — as winds. N. Lee. Play, Different Widows, 8$ others. 
— as a northern wind. Play, Ungrateful Favourite. T. May. 
— as the billows. Dryden. — as adders, winds, or the remorse- 
less seas. Banks. — as adders. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Shakespear, 
fy others. — as adders, and as deadly. N. Lee. Deaf and more 
fierce than the adder is. Play, Faithful Shepherd. Deaf and 
inexorable as adders sung to. Sir F. Fane. Deaf as the adder, 
when with grounded head and circled form, her avenues of 
sound barred safely, one slant eye watches the charmer's lips 
waste on the wind his baffled witchery. Southey. More deaf 
than trees. Waller. Deaf as the flint. Ogilvie. More deaf 
to mercy than the famished wolf that tears the bleating kid. 
Smollett. Deaf as a post. Colman. 
DEAR as his soul's redemption. Shakespear. Dearer than my 
soul. Shakespear, Machin, ty others. Dear as my soul's bliss. 
T. Killigrew. — as heaven. Play, Arden of Feversham. Poem, 
South Downs. — as life. G. Whetstones, Beaumont ty Fletcher, 
fy others. — as air. Marston. Dearer than air or eye-sight. 
M. G. Lewis. — than the vital air I breathe. Dryden, Hooles 
Ariosto. Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life. Otway. 
Dearer than life to one who fears to die. N. Lee. — than my 
breath. Beaumont § Fletcher, T. Cibber. — than life's best joys. 
A. Hill. Dearly prized as life. Jonson. More dear, more 
precious to my heart than the warm blood which feeds its 
vital motion. R. Dodsley. Dear as the drops that warm my 
heart. H. More. — as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. 
Gray, in Dodsleifs Collection. Dear beyond the crimson tide 



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that warms this heart. Matthew West. — as the life blood cir- 
cling round my heart. T. Maurice. — as the drops that circled 
in my veins. A. Murphy. Dearer to my heart than my life's 
drops. Gildon. Dearer than my blood. Play, The Ghost. 
Dear to him as life blood to his heart. T. Middleton, H. Boyd. 
Dear as mine own heart. Cockain. Dearer than the blood 
that bathes my heart. HooWs Ariosto. Dear as my heart's 
purple drops. Play, Zenobia. Dearer than the apple of 
mine eye. Marlowe, Sylvester. Dear as my own eyes. Glap- 
thorne. T. Killigrew, ty others. — as light. Play, Alarbas. 
Dear to me as light and life. Burns. Dearer to me than light, 
or life. Henry Siddons. Dear to my heart as the light to my 
eye. Burns. — as the light that shines before my eyes. Hoole's 
Ariosto. Dear to these eyes as is the new-born light of hea- 
ven, Hartson. Dearer to my eyes than light. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. Dearer to my sight than the gay fires that gild the 
gloom of night. Shepherd's Lottery. Dearer to me than light. 
A. Hill, Lillo, fy others. Dearer to my soul than light. 
Fielding. Dear as the light that shows the lurking rock. 
James Thomson. Dear as to dungeon slaves the solar gleam. 
Maurice's Elegiac Poem on Sir W. Jones. — as the light to eyes 
but just restored and healed of blindness. Otway. Dearer 
than sight. T. Morton. Dearer than eyesight, space, and 
liberty. Shahespear. More dear to her than golden beams of 
light, or vital air. HooWs Ariosto. Dear as the solar beam. 
G. R. Dixon. Dearer than day to one whom sight must leave. 
N. Lee. Loved her dearly as his life. Lidgate. Dearer than 
life or love. Sheffield Duke of Buckingham. Dear as life to me. 
Chapman. Dear to me as life and glory. N. Rowe. Dearer than 
life. Gildon, Hayley, fy others. Dearer to my heart than glory. 
Hayley. Dear as honour to my name. Otway. — as honour. P. 
Pindar. H. Downing. — as innocence. Blackmore. Dear as my 
life, my virtue, or my fame. Centlivre. Dear to my soul as the 
desire of fame. €. Johnson. Dearer than our fame. J. Shirley. 
Dearer to me than all the laurelled fame of blood-stained con- 
querors. TV. Preston. Dearer to me than the smiles of kings, 



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my hopes of glory, or immortal fame. Cenllivre. — than empire. 
Hayley, Goring. — than shouts of triumphs after fight. Goring. 
Dearer to me than is the sun to earth. Play, Honest Lawyer. 
Dearer to these eyes than all that heaven e'er gave to charm 
the sense of man. Centlivre. More dear to me than all the 
world. Play, Guy Earl of Warwick. Dearer in my eyes than 
all the world united. Pye. Dearer to my soul than rest to 
weary pilgrims, or to misers, gold. Otway. Dearer than all 
the joys vain empire yields, or than to youthful monarchs 
conquered fields. Dryden. Dear as freedom. Oldmixon. Dear 
as the raptured thrill of joy. Burns. Dearer to my soul than 
kindred. Behn. Dear to me as fraternal affinity. C. Macklin. 
Dear as a parent. Pope. — as an only child to a fond parent. 
Potter's Eschylus. More dear to him than penitent children 
are to parents. Banks. The exulting angel who shall call to 
glory the spirits of the just, never prove a visitant more dear 
to raptured saints awakened from the slumber of the grave, 
than thou art to thy father. Hayley. Dear as younglings to 
their dam. Spenser. Dearer than house, or property, or chil- 
dren. Cumberland. — than Plutus' mine. Shakespear. — than a 
diamond's mine. Dr. John Browne. — than diamond. Fraunce. 
— than gold. C. Johnson. — than relics of departed saints. 
Cumberland. Dear as the voice of flattery to the proud. P. 
Pindar. — as to hackney coachmen signs of rain. Ibid. Dearer 
than the spring. Settle. — Dear as is the golden honey to the 
bee. Thurlow. — as vernal showers to budding flowers. Burns. 
As flowers that fade in burning day at evening find the dew- 
drop dear. Langhorne. Dear as autumn to the farmer. Burns. 
DEATHLESS as the soul. Bruce. 

DECAY like the grass of the hill. Ossian. — like weeds that 
wither in the solar ray. Parnell. — like stars that melt at the 
approach of day. Rolle, in Dodsleys Collection. 
As flowers when blighted by the eastern gale 
Shrink from the nipping blast deform'd and pale, 
Or languid wither in o'erwhelming shade, 
Thus on her cheek the vernal rose decay'd. Ogilvie. 



DEL 

DECEITFUL. More deceitful, tyrannous, and fell, than sy- 
rens, tempests, and devouring flame. Smollett. Deceitful as 
the surface of the deep. Merry. 

DECLINE like sickening flowers, that fade and fall before the 
blighting wind. Landon. Decline the head as full-blown pop- 
pies over-charged with rain. Pope. Drooping as with un- 
gentle showers the rose o'er-charged with wet declines her 
head. C. Cotton. As a crimson poppy flower surcharged 
with his seed and vernal humours falling thick, declines his 
heavy brow, so his fainting head did bow. Chapman. — Our 
sinking empire now as swift declines as bodies languish by a 
fierce disease. Goring. 

DEEP as hell. Jonson, Beaumont fy Fletcher, fy others. — as hell 
profound. E. Young. — as lowest hell. Crown. — as Erebus. 
Play, Palladius fy Irene. — as the sea. Otway, Burns, 8$ others* 
— as the sea his judgments lie. Watts. — as an ocean. Sir W. 
Jones. Deep as the ocean is his mind. Play, Sulieman. — as 
the mighty ocean. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as to 
the centre. T. Hey wood, Southern, fy others. — as a well. 
Shakespear, Otway. Deep as heaven is high. Chapman. — 
Deep as is Parnassus high. Randolph. — as thought. Marston. 
— as reason. Savage. 

DEJECTED as the lonely dove. Gay. Thus Israel's monarch 
stood, when at the fable's close his conscience smote him, while 
the stern messenger of God pronounced, Thou art the man ! 
Cumberland. 

DELECTABLE as in summer's fervent violence the cold wind 
and snow are. Barclay. 

DELICIOUS as the breath of Maia on violets diffused. Thom- 
son.— -like the sweet south that breathes upon a bank of violets, 
stealing and giving odour. Shakespear. — as the wind that is 
breathed from Paradise. Parnell. — as the dew that lies on 
morning roses. Jonson. 

DELIGHT like that of a sailor when the prize has struck in 



DEL 

battle. Byron. — like that of a miser when filling his hoarded 
chest, Ibid. 

DELIGHTFUL to the eye, as music to the ear. Sir P. Sidney. 
— -as fancy to poets, music to the ears, or beauty to the eyes. 
Duchess of Newcastle. — as the recovery of lost sight. Pres- 
ton's App. Rhodius. No sound is so delightful to the mother's 
ear as the voice of her infant. Specimens of Hindoo Literature \ 
by N. E. Kinder sley. Delightful as the copious shower whose 
drops refresh the new shorn plain. Merrick. — as the soft 
whispers of the southern wind that play through trembling 
trees. Dry den. — as from the violets' bank with odours sweet 
breathes every gale. Gay. — as when the smiling face of youth- 
ful May invites soft Zephyr to her fragrant lap. J. G. Cooper. 
More delightful than blooming morn's approach, even then in 
youthful prime of opening May when from the portals of the 
saffron east, she sheds fresh roses and ambrosial dews. T. 
Warton. 

DELUGE. Thy barbarous foes like a destructive flood, deluge 
thy lands, and sweep thy wealth away. Alexander Bicknell. 

DELUSIVE as a dream. Fenton. — as a midnight dream. Caw- 
thorn. 

DEMONSTRATIVE. It is a principle as demonstrative as 
truth. Marmion. — as Euclid. Duchess of Newcastle. 

DEMURE and chaste as any vestal nun. Pope. Look as de- 
murely as a saint. Play, Shoemakers Holiday. Look as de- 
murely as if he were asking his father's blessing. Play, 
Jack Drums Entertainment. Demure as if butter would not 
melt in your mouth. Ravenscroft. Sitting as demure as a cat. 
Cumberland. 

DEPART like mist when it flies before the rustling wind along 
the brightening vale. Ossian. My fame is departed like morn- 
ing mist. Ibid. 

DESCEND as gently as night dews fall to the earth. R. Blair. 
Descend like purifying rain. Watts. Descend copiously like 



DIF 

rain. /. Hervey. Descend like a serenely setting sun. Jenyns. 
— like the bright officer of day. Sir W. Davenant. Descend in 
majesty as Jove to Semele. Play, Triumphs of Virtue. Descend 
like the managed falcon on the dove. HooWs Ariosto. Sleep 
descends upon the eye-lids of the happy, like heaven's dew- 
drops on the earth, cool and refreshing. Colman. Descend 
softly as snow-flakes. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. 

DESTROY like a general plague. Drayton. A. Hill. Even 
your eyes like basilisks destroy. J. Tracy. — 

the tempest in its rage 

Bursts not with greater fury to destroy, 
Than darts thy vengeance on thy feeble foe. H. Smithers. 
DESTRUCTIVE as the lightning of heaven. Fragments of An- 
cient Poetry. — as the frost that bites the first-born infants of 
the spring. Shakespear. Like rushing waters that deluge all 
the plain, destructive, dreadful. R. Barf or d. 

DETEST. My heart detests him as the gates of hell. Pope. 
Detest her as a fiend of hell. PasquiVs Nightcap. 

DEVOURING as the deluge. C. Hopkins. — as the locusts' ra- 
vening tribes. T. Maurice. 

DEVOUT as vestals. Behn. 



DIE away like the evening breeze among the grass of the rocks. 
Ossian. — like zephyrs ceasing at the close of day. Scott of 
Amwell. — like breezes with declining day. Penrose. — like the 
breeze that met the orient ray, and 'mid the noon-day fervours 
fann'd the grove. C. Fox. 

DIFFER as much as heaven and hell. Play, Like will to like. 
Differ as much from it as light from darkness. Sir W. Scott. 
Differ as much as the vital heat from the burning of a fever. 
South. Differ as the fire of heaven differs from that grosser 
element which the peasant piles upon his smouldering hearth. 
Sir W. Scott. Differ as far as a glow-worm from a star. J. 
Day. — as far as does the sea from fire. May. 

DIFFERENCE as vast as between inadvertency and delibera- 



DIF 

lion. South. As wide as is the difference between the appear- 
ance of the world when it lay in its primitive chaos without 
form and void, and the appearance it has now assumed when 
resplendent with the light of the sun, and decked with the beau- 
ties of nature. H. Blair. There is as much difference between 
the clear representations of the understanding then, and the 
obscure discoveries that it makes now, as there is between a 
casement and a key-hole. South. — as much as between white 
and black. J. Ford. — as between jet and ivory. Shakespear . 
— as between a calm and a storm. Duchess of Newcastle. 
Difference as great as the brightness of the sun and the slender 
light of a candle. R. Greene. 

DIFFERENT as heaven and hell. Play, Jeronimo. — as good and 
evil. Atterhury. — as light and darkness. Colman. — as night 
and day. Centlivre. — as the light of a glow-worm to the ra- 
diance of a star. Tillotson. — as sable ebony to Alpine snow. 
Brewer. — as crabs to apples of the Hesperides. Browne. 
Their two natures as different are, as the two poles. /. Shir- 
ley. Knowledge perfected by practice, is as much different 
from mere speculation, as the skill of doing a thing is, from 
being told how a thing is to be done. Tillotson. They are no 
more like than chalk to cheese, than black to white. Play, 
Marriage of Wit and Science. 

DIFFUSIVE as the light. N. Cotton.— like the sun. Durfey.— 
as the sun's beams. E. Howard. — as the air. Peaps. Far dif- 
fused as fancy's wing can travel. Coleridge. 

DILATING as the spreading air. Duchess of Newcastle. 

DIM like the darkened moon behind the mist of night. Ossian. 
— like reflected moon-beams on a distant lake. Ibid. — like the 
pale moon in morning day. Sir W. Scott. A form dim as the 
bow just mixing in the cloud. Ogilvie. 

DIRE as when friends are rankled into foes. Thomson. — as the 
bird of death at midnight sings his dreary howlings in the sick 
man's ear. Lusiad. 



DIS 

DIRTY as earth. Fielding. 

DISAPPEAR as the early dew. Sacred Script. — as a morning 
cloud. Ibid. — like morning stars at the sun's presence. Play, 
Unfortunate Usurper. — as stars before the sun. Settle. 

DISCONSOLATE as a bee that has lost its sting. Shadwell. — 
— like to a turtle that hath lost her mate. Play, Rhodon fy Iris. 

DISMAL as the depth of hell. Beaumont ty Fletcher; Play, 
Maid's Tragedy. — as when the tempest of November blew the 
winter trumpet till its failing breath went moaning into silence. 
Cornwall. — as the hidden dwelling of the winds where storms 
engender. Sir W. Davenant. — Dismal it sounds like the last 
groan which men in torture breathe. Ibid. Dismal, hateful, 
and dispiriting, as darkness. South, — as the grave. R. Hurst. 

DISMAYED. The wandering gadling in the summer- tide that 
finds the adder with his reckless foot, starts not dismayed more 
suddenly aside. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Like him that wandering 
in the bushes thick, treads on the adder with his reckless foot, 
reared for wrath, swelling her speckled neck, dismayed gives 
back all suddenly for fear. Earl of Surrey. 

DISPARITY as great as between empire and advice, counsel 
and command, between a companion and a governor. South. 
Disparity of nature great as between finite and infinite. Ibid. 

DISPERSED as chaff before the wind. Merrick. Dispersed 
and scattered, whisked up into the air, like summer dust by 
whirlwinds. Southern. — as a mist that is driven away with the 
beams of the sun and overcome with the heat thereof. Wisdom 
of Solomon. 

DISPROPORTIONATE. But why do I compare things to- 
gether so infinitely disproportionate as temporal with eternal, 
corporeal with spiritual, the death of the body alone, with 
the death of soul and body too, or the benches of men with 
the tribunal of God ? South. 

DISSEMBLING as the sea. Beaumont $ Fletcher ; Play, Maid's 
Tragedy. 



I 



DIS 

DISSOLVE like snow. Byron. — as ductile wax before the 
breath of Vulcan. W. Thompson. — as wax before the fire. 
Merrick. — as snow on Salmon at the tepid touch of southern 
gales by slow degrees dissolves. TV. Thompson. — like clouds 
before sun. Poems on State Affairs. As a morning dream. 
Southey. 

DISTANT as the moon from the earth. W. Rowley. — as the 
globes of heaven and earth. Cibber. — as earth is from the sky. 
Cooke s Hesiod. — as a star. N. Cotton. — as vice and virtue. 
Tillotson. — as heaven from hell. G. Peele. The Robbers, a 
Play from Schiller. — as pole from pole. Jacob. Your tem- 
per and mine are distant as the poles. J. Corye. 

DISTASTEFUL as death. Play, Spanish Bawd. 

DISTIL like early dew. Watts. — like heavenly dew. Ibid. 
Distil more sweetly than the dew. J. Hervey. — as the evening 
dew. Ibid. 

DISTRESSFUL like the plaintive bird who views the plundered 
nest, and mourns her ravished young. Antigone, in Greek Tra- 
gic Theatre. 

DISTURBED and broken like a sick man's sleep. Prior. 

DOCILE as schooled infancy. R. C. Maturin. 

DOLEFUL and sweet as waking nightingales when they repeat 
in groves their tragic tales. N. Lee. 

DOUBLING and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. 

DOUBT. Full of doubts and doubles like a hunted hare when 
she is near tired. Dryden. Doubtful and hovering like ex- 
piring flame that mounts and falls by turns, and trembles o'er 
the brand. Ibid. Doubtful it stood as two spent swimmers that 
do cling together and choke their art. Shakespear. 

DREAD it as bad as a beggar does a whipping-post. E. Ward. 
Dread him as calf the bear, or sheep the wolf. Weber s old 
Metrical Romances. 

DREADFUL as celestial hate. Pope. — -as heaven's curses. Glap- 



DRI 

thorne. — as Mars. N. Rowe, E. Smith. — as the god of war. 
Pope, Hurst, § others. Noise, more dreadful than the din of 
war. /. Oldmixon. Dreadful as the mandrake's groan. Shake- 
spear. More dreadful than death. N. Lee, Centlivre, fy others. 
— than is the frown of Jove. Anne Countess of Winchilsea. 
Dreadful as the sight of a death's head. Play, Abdicated Prince. 
More dreadful than the blackest night. Blackmore. — than the 
depth of blackest night. C. Hopkins, in Dryden's Miscellany. 
— than a tempest. Middleton. Dreadful as the storm. Pye, 
Campbell. — as thunder. Gildon, W. Rose. — as killing thunder. 
C. Cotton. — as lightning. G. Sewell. — as lightning from the 
midnight cloud. Dr. John Browne. — as the sea to inexperi- 
enced mariners. C. Hopkins. — like ocean warring against a 
rocky isle. Byron. More dreadful than howling of a wolf. Sir 
P. Sidney. I will come in terror clad, more dreadful than the 
pest that walks in midnight darkness. Dr. John Browne. Pause, 
dreadful as when a multitude expect the earthquake's second 
shock. Southey. 

a phantom train 

Of shapes infernal, dreadful as the band 
Raised by infuriate fancy to torment 
Some wretched maniac in his wildest hours, 
When ghastly demons burst upon his eye, 
When nought assail his ear but shrieks of woe, 
And Horror's deadly fiend with iron hand 
Grasps his convulsive heart. Charles Fox. 

DREARY as Chaos ere creation's reign. Translation of Vol- 
taire's Henriade. 

DRINK as earth imbibes the shower. T. Moore. — as the rain- 
bow drinks the dew. Ibid. — as ocean quaffs up the rivers. 
Ibid. — as the sun inhales the sea. Ibid. My drooping soul 
drinks up your words as the parched earth does a refreshing 
shower. Ravenscroft. As the drooping flower parched by the 
sun drinks up the balmy dew. /. B. Surges. Drink like a 
fish. Durfey, Farquhar, fy others. Drink water like a fleece. 
Drayton. 



DRI 

DRIVEN as the smoke out of a chimney. Sacred Script. Driven 
away like the dissolving smoke. /., Hervey. — as the chaff that 
is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor. Sacred Script. — 
like chaff before the wind of heaven. Sir W. Scott. — as faded 
leaves by autumn's wind. Pollok. 
DROOP like over-ripened corn. Shakespear. — like a lily. Gay. 
— like the lily beaten down with rain. Play, Nero. — like a lily 
in a morning shower she droops her head. J. Miller. — like 
a lily over-charged with rain. Byron. Like a lily drooping 
she bowed her head. Gay. — as a lily at the blighting gale. T. 
Percy, in Dodsley's Collection. — like tulips over-charged with 
wet. Prestwich. — like lovely violets over-charged with too 
much morning dew. Chapman. — like a rose surcharged with 
morning dew. Dryden. — like a fair flower o'er-charged with 
morning dew. C. Johnson. Drooping like roses over-charged 
with morning dews. C. Cotton. Droop like the spread rose 
beneath the inclement shower. Smollett. Drooping like the 
chill nipped flower. Royal Merchant, Comic Opera. Droop and 
hang his head like flowers oppressed with showers. T. Killi- 
grerv. Thou hast seen the musk rose newly blown disclose 
its bashful beauties to the sun, till an unfriendly chilling storm 
descended, crushed all its blushing glories in their prime, bowed 
its fair head and blasted all its sweetness ; so drooped the maid. 
H. More. Her fair form, more lovely in distress, droops like 
the tender blossom of the spring, beat by the gathered force 
of pitiless showers. Play, Fair Circassian. 

with such a patron, 

Fair learning towers above the carping crowd, 
And useful merit all its powers expands ; 
Whilst left unshelter'd in the wilds of nature, 
By slander blasted, and by want bow'd down, 
Like an exotic to the north expos'd, 
The fairest flow'rs of genius droop and die. 

Play, True Patriotism. 
So the chaste flow'r, whose copious incense pour'd, 
Glads ev'ry sense, and charms the ravish'd eye, 



DRY 

That spreads its blushing beauties to the sun, 
Untimely cropt by some rude gazer's hand, 
Dejected droops, and in its bloom decays. 

Herminius 8$ Espasia, by Hart, 
Drooping like a blossom of the spring that wintry gales have 
strook. Harriet Lee. Like a tender plant o'ercharged with 
dew, thus droop your lovely head. Goring. Droop as youthful 
plants surcharged with storm and rain, hang their moist heads, 
and languish on the plain, bent to the roots. Preston's App. 
Rhodius. As the floweret blighted by the storm she drooped. 
Smithers. She drooped like a fair flower beneath a storm. 
Thomas Cooke. Droop in beauteous spring like blasted flow- 
ers. Fielding. Droop like the faded flower. C. Fox. — like 
a willow. Byron. — as a wild-born falcon with clipped wing. 
Byron. Like to a turtle that hath lost her mate, drooping she 
sits. N. Field. 

DROP as the rain. Sacred Script. — like leaves in autumn. Car- 
lell, Gay, fy others. Drop down like an autumn leaf. Sir W. 
Davenant. — like summer fruit from shaken trees. W. Cart- 
wright. — like mellow fruit. Dr. Porteus. Drop as autumn's 
sickliest grain. E. Young. They dropped before his blows 
like mellow fruit before the winds of autumn. G* Soane. 

DROWN like a boundless ocean deep enraged. Play, Cupid's 
Whirligig. Drown our land like to an inundation. Play, Va- 
liant Welshman. 

DROWZY as a dormouse. T. Heywood, S. Sheppard. — as the 
clicking of a clock. W. Cowper. 

DRUNK as a bacchanal. Durfey. — as David's sow. Gay. — as a 
pig. P. Pindar.— as a common fldler. Play, The Puritan. — as 
a piper. Gay. — as an emperor. Centlivre. — as a lord. Jevorn, 
Coffey, 8$ others. — as rats in the Canaries. Glapthorne. — as an 
owl. Duke of Newcastle. — as a mouse. Ingeland. 

DRY up like dew at the ascending sun. Play, Honest Lawyer. 
Dry as the parched summer. T. Heywood. — as pumice. Syl- 
vester, South. — as dust. Durfey. — as saw-dust. H. Higden. 

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D UL 

— as pepper. Dekker. — as a sponge. Durfey. — as the remain- 
der biscuit after a voyage. Shakespear. — as a bone. /. *S7/ir- 
ley. More dry than a fever. R. Brome. 

DULL as death. Chapman. Your disposition is more dull than if 
you were to be chief mourner at a corpse. Glapthorne. Dull 
as night. Shakespear, — as the moon eclipsed. John Gait. — as 
Lethe is. Mirandola. Duller than the fat week that roots 
itself in ease on Lethe's wharf. Shakespear. Dull as Decem- 
ber. Mirandola. — as winter's sleet. R. Bloomjield. — as a 
cloudy day. Duchess of Newcastle. — as a rainy day. Play, 
Fickle Shepherdess. — as a weeping willow. Play, Country Gen- 
tleman. Dull as any log. Poems on State Affairs. Duller 
than a post. Swift, Gay, # others. — than the edge of a buf- 
foon's wooden falchion. Sir W. Scott. Dull as the muddy 
marsh and standing lake. N. Rowe. Dull and cold as earth 
and water. B. Hoadly. Dull as lead. Jonson. — as a stone. 
W. Dunbar. — as a Dutch commentator. Jenyns. — as a chan- 
cery suit. Fielding. — as dining by the clock. Epilogue to 
Dryden's Evening's Love. — as a dormouse. Beaumont ty Fletch- 
er, Chapman, ty others. — as an ox. Duke of Newcastle, Field- 
ing. — as an ass. Lidgate, T. Scott. — as the sound of a full 
hogshead. W. Walker. 

DUMB as death. Southern, Durfey, § others. — as night. Play, 
Palladius fy Irene. Dumb and silent as the dead of night. 
Bp. Hall. — as a stone. Chaucer, Wyatt. — as a fish. Jonson, 
O'Keeffe, fy others. — as oysters. S. Foote. — as a statue. C. 
Hopkins. — like marble statues. A. Brown. Dumb as solemn 
sorrow ought to be. Otway. — as a destined victim. A. Hill. 
— as Westminster Hall in the long vacation. Greeris Tu quoque. 
— as a dog. Coffey. 

DURABLE as brass. W. Sampson. More durable than brass or 
marble. J. Jones. Dr. Johnson. — than adamant. H. Boyd. 

DUSKY like night. Byron. 



E MP 

E. 

IMAGER as a tiger. Chaucer, — as the courser for the race. Dry- 
den. — as greyhound on his game. Sir W. Scott. The grey- 
hound is not more eager at his flying game. R. Davenport. 
Eager as hounds when slipped upon their prey. Cumberland. 

EARLY as the dawn. Sir W. Davenant. — as the day. T. Killi- 
grew. Rise as early as the lark. T. Heywood, Durfey. 

EASY as a down bed. Skakespear. Easy to repose on as the 
mossy bank that is breathed upon by May. Sir W. Scott. 
Easily as in the blithesome hour of spring, a child doth crop 
the meadow flower. Southey. 

EBB and flow like the sea. Barclay, Skakespear, fy others. 

ECCENTRIC. He moves eccentric like a wandering star. 
Dry den. 

ECLIPSE. Her brighter eyes eclipse the diadem, as the meri- 
dian sun outshines the stars. Play, Faithful General. 

ELASTIC and light as air. J. H. Stevenson. 

ELATE as power. Savage. Elate and free as the light bound- 
ing air that fans the sultry cheek of summer. Play, Gonzanga. 
Stood like a sturdy oak, proudly elate. Thomas Whincop. 

ELEGANT as simplicity. W. Cowper. 

ELOQUENT. More eloquent than angel's tongue. Southey. 
Eloquent as Demosthenes. Play, Knack to know a Knave. — as 
Cicero. Duchess of Newcastle, Author's Triumph. 

EMBRACE as ivy doth the wall. Harington. — as the ivy clings 
around the oak. Hecuba, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Embrace 
it with as warm and willing rapture, as mothers clasp their 
infants. G. Colman. 

EMPTY as the air. Swift, Sir W. Scott. — as air-pumps drained 
of air. Shenstone. — as the whistling wind. Watts. — as shadows 
are that fly o'er fields. Dryden. — as a sucked egg. Beaumont 






ENC 

$ Fletcher. Empty and unsubstantial as the bubble that flits 
along the stream and quickly bursts. James Templeton. 

ENCHANT like Circe. R. Greene. Sounds, as enchanting as 
the Theban lyre, or all the music of the spheres at once. J. 
Harris. Melody, more enchanting than the syren's. R. Greene. 

ENDLESS as eternity. /. Mitchell. — as to tell the leaves on 
trees, the beasts on Alpine hills, or Hybla's bees. Congreve. 
— as the ring. Play, Christmas Ordinary. 

ENTIRE as dying saints' confessions are. Behn. 

ENTRAPPED faster than gnats in cobwebs. Shakespeay 

ENTRENCHED like moles. J. H. Stevenson. 

ENVENOMED as an asp. W. Cowper. 

ENVIOUS as a rival. Wycherley. 

ERECT as alders. Dryden. 

ESTABLISHED as the days of heaven. Milton.— like sun and 

moon. Sylvester. 
EVAPORATE like inflammable air. Burgoyne. 
EVEN as the brow of Cynthia. Dekker. 

EVIDENT as light. Sir W. Davenant. — as day. Ibid. — as day- 
light. T. Jordan. — as is the universal light of day. Play, 
Damon fy Pythias. A time as evident as if it were pointed 
out by a sun-beam upon a dial. South. — as mathematical de- 
monstration. Ibid. 

EXACT as clock-work. Play, School for Guardians. 

EXALTED as a god. Milton. 

EXCEED it, as chastity does incontinence. Peaps. She ex- 
ceeds her as much in beauty, as the first of May doth the last 
of December. Shakespear, Miller. The price of one soul 
doth exceed as far a life here, as the sun in light a star. Play, 
Queen. As far exceeding these as the great day-star, his 
pale-cheeked sister, or night's lesser beauties. Nabbs. Ex- 



FAD 

ceed as far as mid-day Phoebus doth the dullest star. W. 
Balmford, 

EXCEL, as the sun with beams most clear and bright excels the 
stars. Lidgate. Excel her as Cynthia does the lesser stars, 
or Venus the sea-nymphs. May. Wisdom excelleth folly as 
far as light excelleth darkness. Sacred Script. Excel as much 
as diamond does glass. Play, Life and Death of Lord Cromwell. 
Excelling as far as doth the daughter of the day all other 
lesser lights in light excel. Spenser. Excel as far as heaven's 
bright lamp doth a dull twinkling star. Poem, The Female 
Advocate. — as far as heaven's illustrious lamp, a little star. 
Poem, The Great Birth of Man. Its whiteness does as far 
excel the driven snow, as the sun's bright rays a glittering 
star. M. Coppinger. 

EXCELLENT as angels. Beaumont $ Fletcher. 

EXHALED like morning dew before the sun. Settle. 

EXHAUSTLESS as the glorious font of day. Poem, The High- 
landers. 

EXPANSIVE as the light. R. Nevile. 

EXPIRE, as momentary sparks from the smitten steel. /. Hervey. 

EXULTING like a young conqueror, moving through the pomp 
of some triumphal day. Akenside. 

EYE their prey, as famished wolves survey a guarded flock. Sir 
W. Scott. 



F. 



£ ADE like the stars, when morn is in the skies. T. Moore. — 
like the soft and summer light, that mingles gently with the 
darkness. Cornwall. — like the prospects of a summer's day, 
which meet the night and in its shades decay. Universal Ma- 
gazine, — like the dim day melting into night. /. Wilson, author 



F AI 

of Isle of Palms. — like the morning dew. Campbell. Fade 
away like the pearled dew of May. W. Balmford, Fade like 
a flower. Machin, Gay. — like a spring flower. Sturm. — like 
a summer flower. Ibid. Fade from thee as flower in May. 
Play, Every Man. T. Cibber. Fading as the morning flower. 
Poetical Calendar. Fade quick as the flower, or vernal blade. 
Merrick. — like summer's grass. Old Poem, Thameseidos. As 
flowery grass cut down at noon, before the evening fades. 
Watts. Fade as a rose. Lidgate. Faded like the blasted rose. 
Penrose. Fading as the forest roses. James Hogg. Fade 
as doth the lily fresh, before the sunny ray. Spenser. — like 
the fair flower, dishevelled in the wind. W. Cowper. — like a 
flower that feels no heat of sun. Spenser. — like a withered 
autumn. Settle, Powell. Fading like a dream. G. Keate. 
Fade quick as a dream. Beattie. Fade like colours in the 
sun. C. Bullock. Fading like a dream. J. Wilson, author of 
Isle of Palms. Fade on memory like a dream of night, whose 
fleeting shadows vanish from the dawn. C. A. Elton. — like 
the meteor. John Lake. Love, like the gay colours of the 
rainbow, is apt to fade away all of a sudden. Farce, She is not 
Him, fyc. 

FAINT as evening shadows. Watts. — as a glimmering taper's 
wasted light. Sir W. Jones. Faint and shy as bashful maiden's 
half-formed sigh. Sir W. Scott. 

FAIR as the sun. Pollok. — as the bright sun. Chaucer. — as 
Phcebus' sun. Spenser. — as Phoebus. Hughes. Fairer than 
Phoebus, or the morning star. T. Forde. Fair as Phcebus' 
rays gilding the glittering air. Poole's Parnassus. Fair like 
Titan's shine. R. Greene. A face more fair than is the sun's 
bright beams, or snow-white Alps beneath fair Cynthia. Play, 
Knack to know a Knave. — as the sun, when up the steep of 
heaven he rides in all the majesty of light. Bruce. Fair, mild, 
end strong as is a vernal sun. Thomson. — as day. Shakespear, 
Beaumont fy Fletcher, § others. Fairer than orient day. Poeti- 
cal Calendar. Fair as the break of opening day. W. Heard. 



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— as day in its first birth. Sir W. Davenant. — as early day. 
M. Pilkington. — as day spring. W. Thompson. — as the morn. 
Spenser, W. Browne, 8$ others. — as the morning. Dryden, 
Lansdowne, 8$ others. — as the grey-eyed morn. Denham. — as 
springing day. Spenser. — as orient beams of light. Goring. — 
as new-born light. Ibid. Fairer than the morning light. W. 
Thompson. Fair as the rising morn. Merrick. Fairer than 
the opening morn, when from the eastern hills the rising sun 
glads wakening nature with unclouded lustre. Play, Codrus. 
Fair as the bright morning. Chaucer. — as the morning's 
brightest beam. The Nun, a poem. — as roseate morn. Poem, 
Taliesin. — as the morn in saffron mantle dight. Pye. — as the 
blushing morn. N. Rone. — as the chaste blushing morn. Beau- 
mont fy Fletcher. — as the morning, when she ushers in the day 
with blushes. Nabbs. Fair as mild Aurora. Ogilvie. A 
countenance fairer than Aurora's looks, when all the East is 
gilded with her blush. Play, Trial of Chivalry. The sun, 
when he is by Aurora's roseal fingers decked, views not his 
repercussed self so fair upon the eastern main. Beaumont's 
Psyche. Fair as the first ruddy streaks of opening day. Behn. 
More fair than the red morning's dawn. N. Lee. Fair as the 
paintings of the purple morn. Dodsley's Collection. — as the 
purple-blushing hours that paint the morning's eye. Shamrock. 
More fair than rosy morn, when first she smiles o'er the dew- 
brightened verdure of the spring. Smollett. Fair as vernal 
mornings. A. Seward, A. S. Cottle. — as a May morning rising 
from the East. N. Lee. Fairer than a morn of May. Sir TV. 
Jones. Fair as summer morning. Sir W. Scott. — as when the 
morning from the greedy waves with dewy beams up flies. 
Doynes Tasso. — as the light of the morning when the sun 
riseth, even a morning without clouds. Sacred Script. — as the 
first smiles of summer mornings are. Play, Romulus and 
Hersilia. Fair, sweet, and fresher than a summer's morn. 
Shipman. — as the eastern light, when day smiles at her birth. 
Sir W. Davenant. — as shoots the morning forth, spangled with 
pearls of transparent dew. /. Ford. 




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Dearest love ! fair as the eastern morn, 

When with her summer's robe she decks the plains, 

And hangs on ev'ry bush a liquid pearl 

In May's triumphing month. Tatham. 
Fair as the spring, when May's pellucid morns crimson the 
orient. A. Seward. 

Her morning bloom was doubly fair, 
Like summer's day-break, when we see 
The fresh dropt stores of rosy dew 
(Transparent beauties of the dawn), 
Spread o'er the grass their cob-web lawn, 
Or hang moist pearls on ev'ry tree, Hughes. 
Fair as the spring. Anthony Brown. Play, The Italians. 
the face of spring, when rural songs and odours wake the morn 
to every eye. Akenside. — as the spring in opening buds ar- 
rayed. Daphnis, a pastoral. — as vernal fields in bloom. An- 
thony Brown. Fair as the face of nature did apppear, when 
flowers first peep'd, and trees did blossoms bear, and winter 
had not yet deform'd th' inverted year. Dryden. — as the open- 
ing east. Prior. — as the light of dawning day. Watts. — as the 
day in its fairest birth, when all the year was May. Poole s 
Parnassus. — as the face of day, when it is washed with morn- 
ing dews. E. Howard. Fairer than the face of fresh Aurora 
washed in eastern streams. Psyche, by Joseph Beaumont. — than 
a star. Jonson. — than a fixed star. /. Caulfeild. Fair as the 
morning-star. Blackmore, R. Pollok. — as the star that beauti- 
fies the morn. Blackmore. — as the new-born star that gilds 
the morn. Pope. — as winter stars, or summer setting suns. 
N. Lee. The golden star that leads the radiant morn looks 
not so fair, fresh rising from the main. Langhorne. Fair as a 
star, when only one is shining in the sky. W. Wordsworth. — as 
Phosphor, who foreruns the day. Southey. — as light. Beau- 
mont fy Fletcher, Sir W. Davenant, fy others. — as beams of 
light. T. Yalden, in Drydens Miscellany. — as the earliest 
beam of eastern light. Sir W. Scott. — as the infant beams of 
new-born light. F. Sellers. — as unshaded light. Sir W. Da- 



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venant. — as new-born light. Pix, Theobald, fy others. Fair as 
the new-born light, when Nature deck'd the smiling infant world ; 
when blossoms, fruits, and flowers, luxuriant form'd with open- 
ing sweets a bright eternal spring ; when all look'd gay ; when 
all was joy and transport. Eliza Haywood. Fairer than silver 
floods of light. Hughes. — than the silver sky. Farquhar. — 
than the light that great Apollo gives. Duchess of Newcastle. 
Fair as summer's face. Sylvester. — as summer mornings. Dry- 
den. — as summer's noon-tide. Tatham. — as blooming summer. 
Ramsay. — as summer skies, when not a cloud deforms the blue 
expanse, but all is spotless beauty, fringed with celestial streams 
of sunny gold. W. Thompson. Fair and beautiful as is the 
morning star. T. Thompson. Fairer than the milky way. 
Play, Cornish Comedy. Fair as is the milk-white way of Jove. 
Play, Taming of a Shrew. Fairer than Jove's milky way. 
M. Stevenson. Fair as the summer beauty of the fields. 
Otway. — as heaven. Mirandola. Fairer than heaven's clearest 
brow. Play, Sicilides. Fair as heaven's unsullied face. W. 
Thompson. Fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of 
a thousand stars. Marlowe. Fairer than heaven's broad cause- 
way paved with stars. W. Wordsworth. — than the skies. J". 
Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. Fair as evening skies. W, 
Wordsworth. — as the rainbow. Poem, Fragments of Fingal. — 
as the rainbow of heaven. Ossian. — as the rainbow shines 
through darkening showers. Montgomery. — as the dyes that 
paint the heavenly bow. Jenyns. — as the moon. Sacred Script., 
Ossian, fy others. — as Cynthia. Poetical Calendar. More fair 
than the replenished moon. G. Sandys. Fair as moon-light. 
Byron. — as moon-beam. R. Pollok. — as the harvest moon. 
Fragments of Ancient Poetry.— as the full moon setting on the 
hills. Ibid. Fairer than night's queen. G. Soane. Fair as 
nature from the chaos. Tate. Fairer than snow. Sylvester, 
Ossian. Fair and chaste as snow. Poetical Calendar. — as 
mountain snow. Dryden's Miscellany, Garth, ty others. — as 
sunless snow. T. Moore. — as virgin snow. Settle, M. Stevenson. 
— as descending snow, or mounting light. Dryden's Miscellany. 






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Fairer than falling snow, or rising light. Duke. — than the snow 
that on the tempest's wing doth play. S. Bamford. — than 
whitest snow on Scythian hills. Marlowe. Fair as the snow 
on the heath. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. Fairer than the 
snow of the North. Ibid. — than the northern snow. Poem, 
Fragments of Fingal. — than a hill of snow. Sir W. Jones. — 
than pearly dew. M. Pilkington. Fair as the spangled dew- 
drops that adorn the breathing flowerets of the morn. Potter's 
Eschylus. More fair than rills that dimpling run. Robin Hood, 
an Entertainment. Fair as April. Sir W. Jones. Fairer than 
a green proudly bedecked in April's livery. Sir P. Sidney. 
Fair as the book of nature's lines. Watts. — as May. A. Cowley. 
Fairer than a morn of May. Sir W. Jones. Fair and lovely 
as the gladsome May. W. Browne. — as Eden. E. Young, 
Matthew Rolleston. — as the bloom of blowing Eden. Thomson. 
— as blissful Eden. W. Thompson. — as Eden's bowers. Cole- 
ridge. — as the primal garden of mankind. G. Townsend. — as 
the bud unblasted. Beaumont fy Fletcher. Fairer than the 
bud unfolding in a shower. Logan. — than blooms that scent 
the vernal air. M. Pilkington. Fair as the opening blossoms. 
Dry den, Prior. — as the silver blossom on the thorn. A. 
Seward. — as opening flowers. Play, Different Widows. — as 
opening flowers untainted yet with winds. Otway. — as the 
spring's early flower. Bruce. — as the spring's first flowers. A. 
Seward. Fairer than the bloom of earliest spring. T. Noble. 
Fair and sweet as springing flowers. Pix. Fair as rising 
flowers beneath the beams of May. A. Seward. Fairer than 
the flowers of May. Bruce. Fair and fresh as flowers in May. 
Spenser. Fairer than May's new painted blossoms. A. Cowley. 
— than the flowery meads in May. W. Hemmings, Dry den's 
Miscellany. Fair as the rose. Daniel, Swift, 8$ others. — as 
the rose in May. Chaucer, Swift. — as the first rose of spring. 
Play, Selim and Zuleika. — as opening roses. Shenstone. — as 
a full-blown rose. Machin. Fair as in their glory full-blown 
roses are. Durfey. — as the full-blossomed rose. /. Pococh. — 
as the rose-bud. Sir W. Scott. — as the dew-sprinkled rose. 



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Poem, Sorrows of Love. — as a flower in the sunshine. Chaucer. 
— as the floweret that bedecks the lawn. G. Townsend. Fairer 
than whitest blossoms. A. Cowley. Fair as the lily. Chaucer, 
Sidney, § others. Fairer than untouched lilies. Drydens 
Miscellany. — than spotless lilies. Poetical Calendar. Fair as 
the opening lily. Ramsay, Somervile. — as the lily by the foun- 
tain side. A. Seward. — as the lily clad in balmy snow. W. 
Thompson. — as the lily of the vale, that gives its bosom to 
the gale, and opens in the sun. Logan. — as new-blown lilies. 
Jonsons Sad Shepherd, Ramsay. — as the full-blown lily. J. 
Flervey. — as the lily in the watery glade. Dodsleys Collection. 
Fairer than whitest lilies. Play, Faithful Shepherd. Fanshaw. 
— than virgin lily's radiant hue. M. Pilkington. — than the 
vernal bloom of valley lily opening in a shower. Bruce. Fair 
as the daisy. Tickell. Play, Irishman in London. — as the prim- 
rose. A. Cowley. — as the snowdrop. A. Cherry. Fairer than 
jessamine. The Man-hater, in Footers Comic Theatre. Fair 
as the lovely blooms of the peach-tree. Browne. — as the poplar 
rising on the plain. Jago. — as the damsen, or the sky-dyed 
sloe. Poetical Calendar. — as the blushing grape. Poems on 
State Affairs. — as cygnet's down. N. Cotton. Fairer than 
softest down. M. Pilkington. — than the plumes of swans. 
Dryden. Fair as the snowy swan. Edward Jones's Poetical 
Relics of Welsh Bards. Fairer than the snowy breast of the 
tall swan, whose proudly swelling chest divides the wave. 
Gay. Fair as the down of swans, or mountain's snow. 
W. Plawkins. More fair than down of aged swans. E. 
Sherburne. — than Venus' swans, or spotless ermines. Glap- 
thorne. — than Venus' doves. M. Stevenson. Fair and soft 
as Venus' doves. Play, Fickle Shepherdess. — as Venus. 
Spenser, Behn, 8$ others. — as Cupid's mother. Moses Mendez. 
— as the mother of Love. Universal Magazine, for May 
1776. Fairer than love's queen. F. Beaumont. Fair as the 
queen of beauty. A. Philips. — as beauty's lovely queen. T. 
RodaVs Ballads. Fair and lovely as the queen of love. Play, 
Arraignment of Paris. — as was the Cyprian queen. T. Brere- 



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wood. Fair and lovely as a goddess. Browne. — as a goddess. 
Fragments in Greek Tragic Theatre. — as heavenly goddesses. 
Dancer. Fairer than the poets feign the queen of love in her 
most artful dress. Centlivre. — as the queen of beauty and of 
love, when first she sprung from ocean's fruitful foam. Doynes 
Tasso. — as the goddess who sprung from the sea. Ramsay. 
Rise, fair as a new-born Venus from the sea. Friendship's Of- 
fering. Fairer than the god of love. F. Beaumont. Fair, 
like Cupid. Gildon. Fair as the neck of Paphia's boy. T. 
Moore. — as love. Sotheby's Oberon. — as the inhabitants of 
heaven. Fix. — as immortal beings. Play, Fickle Shepherdess. 
— as a cherub, Theobald. — as an angel. T. Scott, TV. Bailey, § 
others. Fair as imagination paints young angels. Behn. — as a 
nymph of paradise. S. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Litera- 
ture. — as Eve in paradise. Herrick. Fairer than fairest Eve. 
Play, Herminius 8$ Espasia, by Hart. She was once as fair 
and innocent as her parent Eve, when first she wakened from 
creation. C. Macklin. — as the daughters of Job. Sacred Script. 
— as Diana. Mrs. Manley, P. Hoare. Fairer than the virgin 
Diana. Play, Looking-glass. — than Naiad of the flood, or her 
who ruled the forest scene in days of yore, the huntress queen. 
/. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — than Daphne. Gildon. Fair 
as Helen. R. Greene, Swift, fy others. — as Hebe. Rolt, Gunning, 
8? others. — as the Graces. Gildon. — as Iris. Poem t Time, by 
J. Gompertz. — as an unspotted maid. M. Pilkington. Fair as 
luxury has painted the nymphs of paradise to Eastern minds. 
Hugh Kelly. Fairer than the fabled Hours. H. Downing. 
Fair as virtue. Beaumont ty Fletcher, J. Dennis. — as the fame 
of virtue. N.Rowe. — as truth. Ibid. — as innocence. C. Cibber, 
Boyle Earl of Orrery. — as pictured innocence. Thomas Gis- 
bome.—as immortal fame in smiles arrayed. Lusiad. — as ho- 
nour. Falconer. — as virtuous friendship. Akenside. — as the 
graceful tear that streams for others' woes. Ibid. — as the 
brow of piety. T. Middleton. Fair as fair may be. Marlowe. 
Fairer than the ideal beauty that warms the lover's hopes, or 
poet's fancy. P. Francis. Fair as the forms that wove in fan- 



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cy's loom, float in light vision round the poet's head. W. Mason. 
Forms, as fair as ever rose on a poet's sweet slumbers. Ber- 
nard Barton. Fairer than the forms which fancy draws when 
glowing genius warms. Bertram, by Sir Egerton Brydges. 
Fair as are the visions of a poet's solitude. Landon. More fair 
than rocks of pearl, or the morning star. T. Forde. — than rocks 
of pearl and precious stone. Play, Taming of a Shrew. Mar- 
lowe's Tamerlane. Fair as the finest gold. Machin. — as silver. 
Prior. Fair and sleek as alabaster. Sir P. Sidney. Fair, but 
cold as alabaster. N. Lee. — as a text B. in a copy-book. 
Shakespear. — as milk. Byron. Fairer than a crystal glass. 
Play, Wars of Cyrus. 

FAITHFUL as angel guardians. Play, Emilia. Vows as faith- 
ful as a dying saint's. Centlivre. Faithful as the magnet. W. 
S. Walker. — as the needle to its pole. Centlivre. — as the pole 
star. Cumberland. — as the silent mirror shows in its true bosom. 
/. G. Cooper. Annual on this day he came as faithful as the 
sun himself. Play, The Witness. Faithful as the turtle's mate. 
W. Hawkins. 

FAITHLESS as the sea. C. Hopkins, Gay, ty others. — as the 
wind. Quarles, Dryden. — as the fleeting wind. John Bidlake. 

FALL like a meteor. Play, Virgin Martyr. — like a bright ex- 
halation in the evening. Shakespear. I see thy glory like a 
shooting star fall to the base earth from the firmament. L. 
Theobald. When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope 
again. Skakespear. Fall like summer dew on me. Sir P. 
Sidney. Fall on me like a silent dew. Herrick. Fall like a 
spangling dew. Ibid. Fall softer than the morning dew. Mil- 
bourne. Fall softly as dew. M. A. Browne. Soft they fell 
as heaven's blest dew upon the thirsty hills. Cumberland. Fall 
thick as midnight dew. R. Shiel. Like showers. T. May, 
Southey. Fall softly as fruitful showers. Sir W. Davenant. 
Tears fall fast as rains from heaven. W. Dimond. Fall like 
the rain-drops of the summer shower. Southey. — like hoary- 
headed frosts in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. Shakespear. 



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Fall soft as feathered snow. Play, Fairy Queen. Fall to 
earth as gently as the snow. Crown. Fall gently like fleecy 
snow. Ecclestone. Fall soft as flakes of snow. J. H. Ste- 
venson. She fell as a wreath of snow before the sun in spring. 
Fragments of Ancient Poetry. Fall like a wreath of snow 
which slides from the rock. Ossian. Fall as thick as hail. 
Marlowe, E. Ward, 8$ others. — like autumn fruit. Dryden. 
Fall off like fruit grown fully ripe. M. Green. Fall like 
the thistle's head beneath autumnal winds. Ossian. — like grass 
before the mower's hand. Drayton. Fall beneath my arm like 
feeble grass cropt by the mower's scythe. Rolt. Fall like 
grass before the sharpest scythe. J. Banks. — like wheat be- 
fore the reaper's hand. Play, Battle of Aughrim. Fall before 
him, like the field before the reapers. Fragments of Ancient 
Poetry. Like ripened corn before the sweeping scythe. E. 
Young. So beneath the reaper's sickle falls the ridge of 
standing corn. T. Rodd's Ballads. Fall as thick as harvests 
before hail, grass before scythes, corn below the sickle. Byron. 
Fall thicker than the chequered leaves the stern winds rend 
and ravish from the trees when yellow autumn turns them into 
gold. A. Brewer. Fall thick as autumnal leaves when winter 
nips the trees with his new frosts. Doijnes Tasso. Fall thick 
as leaves when tempests shake the trees, and frosts severe nip 
the moist sap. Ibid. When they come to be nipped with the 
frosts of adversity, their friends will fall off like leaves in au- 
tumn. Tillotson. Fall as light as the sigh of a lover. 
Sir W. Scott. Light they fell as when earth receives in morn 
of frost the withered leaves that drop when no winds blow. 
Ibid. Your dying accents fell as wrecking ships, after the 
dreadful yell, sink murmuring down and bubble up a noise. 
Dryden. The word Death fell on him like a thunderbolt. Flo- 
rentine Lovers, in the Liberal. Fall tremendous on his ears like 
bursting thunder on the rifted rock. Play, Paetus ty Arria. 
Wherever the doctrine of Christ came, the idolatry of the world 
was not able to stand before it, but fell down like Dagon be- 
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FALLACIOUS as the harlot's kiss. S. Duck, in Dodsley's Col- 
lection. 

FALSE as inconstancy. L. Theobald. — as the smooth deceit- 
ful sea. Watts. — as the ocean's smiles. Settle. — as the insa- 
tiate seas that smiling tempt the vain adventurer. Behn. He 
has a heart as false as seas in calms, smiles first to tempt, 
then ruins with its storms. Ibid. False as is the smooth faced 
sea which every wind disturbs. Cochain. — as the wind, the 
water, or the weather. Otway. Falser than flattering seas, or 
fleeting wind. N. Lee. — than seas. Sylvester. False as waters^ 
winds, or wandering fires. N. Lee. — as water. Shakespear, 
Congreve, fy others. — as the stream. S. Boyse. Falser than 
the smiles of faithless April. A. Cowley. False as canker- 
blooms in spring. Thurlow. — as air. Shakespear. — as fleeting 
air. R. Barford. — as wind. Shakespear, C. Saunders, fy others. — 
as the unconstant winds. M. Bladen. — as watery bubbles blown 
by wind. Lansdowne. — as sandy earth. Shakespear. — as stairs 
-of sand. Ibid. — as a quicksand. Cumberland. — as the loose 
coquet's inveigling airs, Gay. — as the adulterate promises of fa- 
vourites in power when poor men court them. Otway. Falser 
than the smiles of old grown tyrants, or the sea when with its 
smoothest brow it courts to death. Play, Constant Nymph. 
False as vows made in wine. Shakespear. — as fox to lamb. 
Ibid. — as wolf to heifer's calf. Ibid. — as pard to the hind. 
Ibid. — As a harlot's tears. Durfey. Falser than the weeping 
crocodile. Dryden. — than crocodiles. Durfey. False as the 
fowler's artful snare. Smollett. — as clouds that flit before the 
wind. Hoole's Ariosto. — as dicers' oaths. Shakespear. — as 
a pander's face. C. Butler. — as Judas. South. — as Phaon 
to Sappho, or Jason to Medea. G. Colman. Falser than 
the devil. Beaumont ty Fletcher. False as hell. Shakespear, 
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, fy others. — as the smoke of hell. 
Sir W. Scott. Falser than malice in the mouth of envy. 
M. Fix. 

FAMILIAR as household words. Shakespear, Sir W. ScotU — 

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as my sleep. Beaumont ty Fletcher. Familiar to my couch as 
sleep. SewelL Familiar to her as the dew to the mountain 
daisy. Sir W. Scott. 

FANTASTIC as winds. Sir W. Davenant. 

FAR as the utmost bounds of creation extend. Merrick. — as the 
world's remotest ends. Watts. — as the earth, and air, and seas 
extend. Poetical Calendar. — as the utmost verge of earth or 
sky. H. Carey. — as the vast shore washed by the farthest sea. 
Otway. Far as the ocean waters roll. /. Montgomery. Re- 
moved as far as danger from delight, as hell from heaven. C. 
Gibber. As far from help as limbo is from bliss. Titus An- 
dronicus. Far as the sun is above the moon. Play, Free Will, 
by H. Cheeke. — as the journeys of the sun. Watts. Reported 
is as far as shines the sun in any place. Lidgate. As far as 
Phoebus doth in his sphere shine. Ibid. Far as Phoebus in 
the sphere celestial doth spread his beams. Ibid. — as Phoebus 
spreads his glorious flame. J. Taylor. Whose worthiness as 
far abroad doth fly, as Phoebus doth run compass-bout the 
sky in one day's space. Lidgate. Far as Phoebus giveth light. 
Ibid, Far as Phoebus compasseth the sky. Ibid. — as ever 
Sol or Luna shined. J. Taylor. — as the east is from the west. 
Watts. — as the distant poles. A. Portal. As far from fraud 
as heaven from earth. Shakespear. Far as heaven. Moses 
Brown. As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through 
the air. Chapman. Far as is the eastern Inde. J. Taylor. 
Far as the morn its early beam displays, 
Or where the star of ev'ning darts its rays ; 
Far as wide earth is stretch'd, or oceans roll, 
Where blow the winds, or heav'n invests the pole. 

Supplement to Dodsley's Collection. 

FAST as time's swift pinions can convey. Boyse. Ride faster 
than the fleeting air, or racing clouds. J. Banks. Fly faster 
than the rushing thought. Ibid. Fast as Jehu drove for a 
crown. Churchill. — as mill wheels strike. Shakespear. Fast 
and spotless as an alabaster rock. Glapthorne. 



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FAT as butter. Jonson, Lilly,, ty others. — as grease. Sacred 
Script. — as a whale. Chaucer. — as a hog. Play, Contention 
between Liberality and Prodigality. — as bacon. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. — as the heifer at grass. Sacred Script. — as plenty. H. 
Ward. 

FATAL as the eyes of basilisks. Banks, Dryden. Eyes, more 
terrible and fatal than a basilisk's. Play, Unfortunate Usurper. 
More fatal than the envenomed viper's bite. Somervile. — than 
the thunder's force. HooWs Ariosto. Fatal as the lightning. 
C. Hopkins. More fatal than Medusa's head. Otway. Fatal, 
expensive, ruinous, as war. C. Davenant. 

FATHOMLESS as hell. E. Young. 

FAWN like a spaniel. T. Middleton. Fawning as a dog. Smol- 
lett. 

FEARFUL as a siege. Shakespear. — as the breaking billow. 
Byron. — as a young colt. Suckling. — as a hare. Strode, Ward. 
Fearfully as doth a galled rock o'erhang and jutty his con- 
founded base. Shakespear. 

FEARLESS as valour. B. Hoole. — as the strong winged eagle. 
Ossian. 

FEEBLE as the cradled infant. Cumberland. — as dissolving 
smoke. J. Hervey. — as the threads which the light spider 
weaves upon the grass. Cumberland. 

FELL as death. Shakespear, C. Gibber. More fell than tem- 
pest, plague, and fire. W. Sotheby. — than anguish, hunger, or 
the sea. Shakespear. — than tigers on the Libyan plain. Pope. 
— as a lioness in Libya's plain. Garth. 

I FEROCIOUS as a tiger. Smollet. 

i FERTILE as earth. Waller. — as Tempe. E. Young. 

'FERVENT as glorious noon. Watts. 

FICKLE as the moon. Sir W. Scott. — as the horned moon, or 
changing weather. Poem, Paddy Hew. Fickle and changing 
like the moon. Poems on State Affairs. Fickle and incon- 



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stant as the air. Play, Nero. — as the flying air. Beaumont 
ty Fletcher. Fickle and fierce as wavering whirlwinds blow. 
A. Hill. — as the wind. E. Ward, Gay, fy others. — as the sea 
or wind. Somervile. — as the wave or wind. Dodsleys Collec- 
tion. — as April weather. Play, Lord of the Manor. — as a 
changeful dream. Sir W. Scott. 

FIERCE as those bright ministers whom heaven sends forth to 
punish the presuming sons of men. Lillo. As the wrath of 
God. G. Townsend. — as the vengeance of a god. Settle. — as 
the vengeance of an angry god. Powell. — as death. Dryden. 
Fiercer than famine, war, or spotted pestilence. N. Rowe. 
Fierce as the thoughts which mortal man control, when love 
and rage contend and tear the lab'ring soul. N. Rowe. 
Fiercer than hate. Home. Fierce as frenzy's fevered blood. 
Sir W. Scott. — as ten furies. Milton. — as a ruthless fiend. G. 
Townsend. Fiercer than a jealous woman. Daniel. Fierce as 
Jove. Pomfret. — as Mars. Play, Looking- glass. N. Rowe. 
Fierce and majestic as young Mars. N. Lee. Fierce and 
comely as the god of war. M. Bladen. — as the god of battles. 
Pope. Fly fierce as the falling thunderbolt. Chatterton. Fierce 
as the bolt that flames along the skies. Poem, Ilderim. Fiercer 
than lightnings. Dryden. Fierce as the lightning bursting from 
the arm of Jove. Pope. Fierce and transient as the lightning's 
flash. Play, Paetus fy Arria. Fierce as those destructive fiery 
forked shafts which cleave the oak, rend steeples to their base, 
and wrap the piny forests in a blaze. Play, The Revolution. — 
as thunder. C. Cibber, E. Ward. — as fire. Fairfax, Dryden, 
ty others. — as a flood of flame by Vulcan sent, it flew. Pope. 
Flame, fierce as is the noon-tide sun. Southey. Fierce as con- 
flicting fires the combat burns. Pope. Fiercer than the wind. 
Sylvester. Fierce as a whirlwind. Pope, B. Martyn. — as the 
rapid whirlwind. Antigone, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Rage 
in his soul is as the whirlwind fierce. Hannah More. Fierce as 
a storm. Duke, Gay, fy others. — as wintry storm. J. Philips. 
as a winter storm upon the main. Southern. Fiercer than 
storms of wind. Dryden s Miscellany. Fierce as a roaring 



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storm. Ossian. Fierce in war as the mountain storm. Ibid. 
Fiercer than a thousand storms. T. Day. 
Fierce as when tempests on the wat'ry waste 
Confound the elements with hideous roar, 
Heave the swoln surge, and shake th' astonish'd shore. 

W. Richardson. 
Fiercer than the outrageous swelling sea. Play, Faithful Shep- 
herd. More fierce than Hydra. J. Banks, Garth. Fierce as 
a savage that infests the plain. C. Goring. — as a lion. Lid- 
gate, Spenser, fy others. — as a lion when provoked. Otway. — 
as any lion when men him chase. Lidgate. — as a hunted lion 
in the toils. A. Hill. — as a lion in a cage. Play, Candlemas- 
day. — as hungry lions of the desert. Otway. — as the mountain 
lions bathed in blood, or foaming boars. Pope. — as the lion 
from the covert springs, when hunger gives his rage the whirl- 
wind's wings. Mickle's Lusiad. Fiercer than the lion rushes 
from his den. /. Hervey. Fierce as a tiger. A. Fraunce. Play, 
Wars of Cyrus ; fy others. — as the Midian tiger. Poole's Par- 
nassus. More fierce than robbed tiger. Play, Sicilides. 
More fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers, or the 
roaring sea. Shakespear, Otway. Fierce as the tiger which 
sharp hunger drives amidst the bleating flock. G. E. Howard. 
Fierce and furious as a fasting tiger. J. O'Keeffe. — as a tiger 
rushing from his lair. Somervile. — as a panther. Cumberland. — 
as the marked leopard. R. Shiel. — as evening wolves. Sacred 
Script. — as the hungry wolf. J. Ogilvie. — as a famished wolf. 
Cumberland. Fiercer than ravening wolves that range by 
night. Play, Youth's Comedy. Fierce and remorseless as the 
prowling wolf, that nightly makes the helpless flock his prey. 
C. Lennox. — as wild bulls. Dekker. More fierce than savage 
bulls. G. Sandys. Fierce as the foaming boar that whets his 
tusks when the bold hunter hath destroyed his young. Dr. 
John Browne. Fiercer than kites. Jago. Fierce as a bandog 
that has newly broke his chain. Ether ege. — as a startled adder. 
Pope. Fiercer than the ravenous shark. Falconer. More 
fierce than pirates. Fielding. — than cannon. Dry den. 



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FIERCELY as destroying whirlwinds rise, or as clouds dash 
when thunder shakes the skies. Otway. 

FIGHT like a lion. N. Lee. 

FINE as Arachne's web. Nabbs, J. Beaumont. Fine as the tex- 
ture by Arachne laid o'er some young plant when glittering to 
the view with many an orient pearl of morning dew. Hay ley. 
Robes more fine than dark Arachne's woof, or filmy gossa- 
mer. Anna Maria Porter. Fine as a cobweb. Miller. — as a 
spider's threads. R. Barford. Cambric, fine as webs of spider. 
P. Pindar. Fine as the glittering gossamer. /. Wilson, au- 
thor of Isle of Palms. — as floating gossamer. Ibid. — as web of 
lightest gossamer. Sir W. Scott. Fine and frail as the web of 
a gossamer. Ibid. Thread, finer than the silkworm's, or the 
gossamer's. Southey. Finer than threads of lawn. Carew. 
Fine as silkworms' thread. Southey. — as silk. Stevenson. 
Wool, fine as the fleece that Jason fetched from Colchos. 
Greene's Arcadia. Fine as fivepence. Play, Appius fy Vir- 
ginia ; Sir W. Davenant, 8$ others. — as an emperor. Sir Charles 
Sedley. — as a lord. Fielding. — as beaux. Ibid. — as a butterfly. 
O'Keeffe. — as feathers, ribbons, gold and silver, can make you. 
Duchess of Newcastle. — as a rainbow. T. Dibdin. 

FIRM as virtue. W. Thompson. — as truth. R. Bloomfield. — as 
faith. Shakespear, T. Betterton. — as the throne of Jove. So- 
mervile. — as the fabled throne of Grecian Jove. W. Thompson. 
She has a mind firm and unbending as the laws of truth. Mrs. 
Cowley. — as destiny. /. Shirley, M. Lee. — as fate. Play, Love 
A-la-mode ; Otway, fy others. Firm, resolved as fate. Pope. — as 
the decrees of fate. M . A. Meilan. My promise firm as fate's 
decree shall stand. Ravenscroft. Firm as the poles of heaven. 
Massinger. Stand as firm as the celestial poles upon the 
shoulders of Atlas. Ibid. Firm as are the poles on which 
heaven lies. Play, Soliman 8$ Perseda. — as are the poles that 
prop up heaven. Carlell. Endure firm as heaven. Watts. 
Firm as the heavens his throne shall last. Ibid. Stand more 
firm than Atlas. Quarks. My fortune firm as Atlas, will defy 



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the storm. Jephson. Firmer than old Atlas stands. N. Lee. 
Firm as earth. Chapman. — as earth's fixed centre. Dekker. — as 
the centre. Poole's Parnassus. — as the solid base of the world 
rests on its own foundations. Akenside. Firm set as the earth's 
foundations. The Liberal. Firm as the pillars of the earth, 
and lasting. W. Thompson. — as the mountain, round whose 
misty head the unharming tempest breaks. Southey. — as moun- 
tains their foundations keep. Watts. Stand firm as a rocky 
mountain. Shakespear. Firm as fair Albion 'midst the raging 
main. /. Adams. — as a rock. Jonson, Mead, ty others. — as the 
solid rock. Play, Lady Alimony. Firm as a rock thy strength 
shall stand. Solomon, an Oratorio. As a rock stands fast 
against the surging waves still unremoveable, so shall my faith 
stand firm. Harington's Ariosto. Firm as a rock by surging 
tides unmoved. Hoole's Ariosto. — as some rock amidst the 
bellowing flood. Ibid. Firm, as amidst the billows stands a 
rock. Poem, American War. — as a rock, when billows lash its 
side. Joshua, a sacred Drama. — as an isthmus. Thomson. — as 
a Memphian pyramid. Glover. — as adamant. Yarrington, Goff, 
8$ others. Bonds, firm as links of adamant. Thomas Gisborne. 
— as a diamond. Play, Querer por Querer. Firm as the rock of 
diamonds, and as precious. Mead. — as a stone. Sacred Script., 
Poole's Parnassus. — as flint. Sir W. Scott. More firm than 
flinty field. Sir P. Sidney. Firm as marble. Duchess of New- 
castle, Mirandola, fy others. — as a marble statue. Sir W. Scott. 
— as a wall. Jonson, T. Killigrew.—as steel. Sir W. Scott. 
Firm and full of fire as steel and flint. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. 
— as brass. Chapman. — as plates of brass. C. Churchill. — as 
oaks on Ossa. Play, Muleasses the Turk. Stand firm as any 
post. Poems on State Affairs. Firm as the stately oak which 
fiercest hurricanes assault in vain, we 11 stand the driving tem- 
pest of their fury. W. Shirley. Firm (constant) as life unto 
your blood. Play, Hoffman's Tragedy. Firm (constant) as 
heat to fire. Chapman. Stand firm as the foot of resolution. 
Southern. — as Cato. Thomson. — as saints to virtue. C. Johnson. 
Firm, stony, as the lion's nerve. S. Johnson. 



FIT 

FITFUL as the raging sea. Play, Montalto. 
FIXED as fate. Glapthorne, Boyle Earl of Orrery, 8$ others. — 
as the adamantine decrees of fate. Sir W. Scott — as a star. 
W. Wordsworth. Stand fixed as the centre. Play, Valiant 
Welshman ; Durfey. Fixed like the centre to the massy globe. 
Banks. My resolution is fixed as is the centre. Tatham. 
Fixed as is the basis of the world. E. Young. Fixed and 
stedfast as the pillars which prop the sky. W. Thompson. Fixed 
like the northern pole. Poems, Forest of Varieties. Fixed and 
unchangeable, as the pole star in heaven. Play, Don Carlos, 
from Schiller. Fixed as the needle to its pole. Pix. — as the 
mountain's solid base. Merrick. More fixed than mountains' 
roots. John Bidlake. Fixed as Atlas. Jane West. — as a rock. 
T. Heywood, Young, fy others. — as a rock, in constancy. W. 
Sampson. — as the firm rock. T. Scott, in Dodsleys Collection. 
Fixed and firm as rocks of adamant. G. Powell. — like a rock 
amidst a rapid flood. C. Hopkins. Fix'd as a rock (and as 
unmov'd she stood) that dares the storms, and ev'ry beating 
surge. J. Tracy. Fixed like a statue. Jane Wiseman, E. 
Young, § others. — as a statue to one spot. Sir W. Scott. — like 
a statue of stone. Ibid, 

Why are thy eyes thus fix'd ? What means this posture 1 

Thou look'st a very statue of surprise, 

As if a lightning blast had dry'd thee up, 

And had not left thee moisture for a tear. B. Martyn. 
Fixed as a sentinel, all eye, all ear, all expectation of the com- 
ing foe. E. Young. — as a mountain ash. Somervile. 

FLAME like fire. Harington. — like pure ethereal fire. Banks. — 
like sparkling fire. Play, Costly Whore. — like a meteor. Po- 
etical Calendar. — like a comet in its fiery course. J. Bird. — like 
the day-star in the morning sky. W. Richardson. Flaming like 
the lamp of day. Sir W. Jones. — as fire. H. Bradshaw, fy others. 

FLASH like lightning. Play, Thomas Stukeley ; R. Southey, fy 
others. — like lightning from the cloud. Sir W. Scott. — like 
Hghtning o'er the midnight sky. Ibid. Like lightning flashed, 



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before the approaching thunder. Theobald. As lightning gleams 
through midnight skies, so flash'd the fury of his eyes. /. B. 
Rogers. Flashing as the lightning's flames. Coluthus, by Meen. 
Flash like the diamond in the noon-tide sun. Southey. May 
these eyes that wanted fire to warm his heart, flash fierce as 
basilisks', and dart him dead. Southern. 

FLAT as a flounder. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, E. Howard, fy others. 
— as a pancake. /. Day. Play, London Chanticleers ; fy others. 

FLEET as the wind. Butler t Dryden, 8$ others. Fleeter than 
the viewless wind. Southey. Fleeting as the restless wind. 
R. Green. Fleeting as the wavering wind. Spenser. Fleeter 
than the winds blown o'er the keen air'd mountain by the 
north. Thomson. — than the mountain-wind. Sir W. Scott. 
Fleet as the air. Dryden 's Miscellany ; Orpheus and Eurydice, 
an Opera. Fleeting as the air, or hours. Poem, Polindor fy 
Flostella. Fleeting as the bosom of the air. N. Lee. Fleet 
as Zephyr's pinion. T. Moore. Fleeter than the gale. Mickle's 
Lusiad. Fleeting as the gale. E. Young. Fleeting as the 
wind. Dr. Lisle. Fleeter than the gales that Boreas blows. 
Blachmore. More fleet than lightning. Thurlow. Fleet as 
the meteor o'er the desert falls. Campbell. — like a dream. 
Fenton. Fleeting as a dream. Poetical Calendar, Fleet like 
a shadow. H. Blair. — as a shade. Pitt. Fleeting as smoke. 
Doyne's Tasso. Fleet like morning mist. J. Hoole. — as clouds, 
when fiercest tempests blow. Metrical Miscellany. — as the 
dark clouds on a stormy day. /. Bird. — as eagles. Pope. — as 
the eagles that do cut their way with airy plumes to their 
desired prey. Play, Youth's Comedy. — as hawk. Sir W. Scott. 
— as the vulture speeds to flags unfurled. T. Moore. Fleeter 
than the roe. Shakespear. Fleet as the mountain roe, when 
pressed by hounds. Gay. — as mountain roes. Somervile, Boyd, fy 
others. — as the roe of the desert. Ossian. — as the lightly bound- 
ing roe. Metrical Miscellany.— &s fallow deer. Mickle. — as 
forest deer. Sir W. Scott. — as stags. G. E. Howard. Fleeter 
than the flying hind, or driven tempests, or the driving wind. 
Dryden. Fleet as the antelope for safety flies, when he be- 



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holds the dread hyena near. C. Fox. — as the hare. Richard 
Griffith. Fleeter than thought. Shakespear, H. Downing, fy 
. others. Fleet as a glance of the mind. W. Cowper. — as fancy. 
C. Dibdin. 

FLEXIBLE as Indian cane. W. Cowper. — as is the bladed 
grass. G. Powell. Play, Amintas. 

FLIT faster than the shuttles slide from weavers' hands. Syl- 
vester. Flitting like a ghost. Poem, Battle of Floddon. 

FLOCK like flies to a honey-crock. Spenser. Flock round about 
them, as a swarm of flies upon a birchen bough doth cluster. 
Ibid. 

FLORID. Where fresh health blooms o'er the cheek, florid as 
the vernal morn. Rolt. 

FLOURISH as blossoms in May. Plays, Trial of Treasure, § 
Banished Duke. Flourishing like May. Dekker. Flourish 
as Flora in her pride. Marlowe. — as a lily. Ecclesiasticus. — 
like the morning flower in beauty's pride arrayed. Burns. — 
like cedars of Libanus. E. Young. — like a plant by gentle 
streams. Watts. — like grass. Ibid. 

FLOW like a torrent. P. Francis. — like an inundation. Pix. — 
like a stream. Ossian. — like a continual stream. /. Taylor. 
— like the pure crystal stream. R. Wilkinson. — like a river. 
Watts. Flow as smoothly as a summer's flood. C. Hopkins. 
My temper, like a deep stream, flows on smooth and unruffled. 
T. Holcroft. Flow like a spring tide. Quarles. — like a rush- 
ing tide. Sir Thomas Moore. Flow amply, like the undu- 
lating tide. Poem, Russian Prophecy. Flowing as the sea. 
Crown. — as the full-tide sea. Duchess of Newcastle. Tears 
flowed like mountain rills. Byron. 

FLOWER like the green thorn of May. Home. 

FLUCTUATE like summer corn before the breeze. Southey. 

FLUENT as air. /. Shirley. — as the sky-lark sings. Akenside. 
The theme is as fluent as the sea. A. Hill. 



FLY 

FLUSH as May. Shakespear. 

FLY swift as time. Marlowe. Fly with swifter wings than time. 
J. Smith. As swift shall post, as time itself can fly. Durfey. 
Fly like thought. Shakespear, Lilly, fy others. Fly away like 
a passing thought. Burns. Fly fast as day. Quarles. Fly 
swift as Aurora's wain o'er kindling skies. Aurelia, a Poem. 
— like lightning. /. Shirley, Faulkland, 8$ others. Like light- 
ning let me furious fly. Henry Jones. Fly with swiftest flight, 
as lightning in tempestuous night. Play, Cupid's Whirligig. 
Fly like lightning to execute your commands. Play, Fatal 
Union. Not thunder flies more swiftly from Jove's arm, than 
I to execute what you command. W. Philips, Fly like the 
nimble journeys of the light. Dryden. Fly as swiftly as the 
wings of light. Sir W. Davenant. Fly like flash of flame. 
Sir W. Scott. — like sky-rockets. Mrs. Cowley. — like a rocket. 
R. B. Sheridan. Fly quick as a shooting star. Mirandola. — 
like stars athwart the summer sky. Poem, Lay of the Scottish 
Fiddle. — like meteors glancing o'er the troubled sky. Boyd's 
Dante. — like a meteor at the midnight hour. Universal Ma- 
gazine. — like winds. Parnell. — like the northern wind. 
Marston. — like a whirlwind. Ossell, Fly away as lightly as 
the wind. Spenser. — like the swift-paced wind. R. Taylor. — 
more swift than Zephyr's blast. Preston's App. Rhodius. Fly 
like mist before the wind. Ossian. — like mist before the 
zephyr's breath. Sir W. Scott. Fly away, as grey mist be- 
fore the wind. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. — like mists be- 
fore the morning sun. Quarles. — like chaff before the wind. 
E. Ward, Watts. As empty chaff, when whirlwinds rise, 
before the sweeping tempest flies. Watts. Fly like chaff 
dispersed with chasing wind. Play, Youth's Comedy. Like 
tender blossoms in a forward spring, they fly before the hy- 
perborean breeze. Universal Magazine. Fly like the down 
of the thistle before the whirlwind. Sacred Script., Blair. 
The air-borne gossamer, urged by the summer's breath, flies 
not so fast as my desires. Play, Marriage Promise. Fly 
like dust before a whirlwind. Chapman. — like smoke before 



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the rising tempest. Watts. — as a cloud. Sacred Script. Fly 
swift as the clouds. M. Pilkington. — like the light clouds of 
a summer's day. John Scott of Amwell. Fly as fast as cloud 
before the wind. Wyatt. — like a cloud chased by the wind. 
J. Corye. Fly away like a shadow. Beaumont fy Fletcher, 
Quarles, ty others. She flies from love, as shadows from the 
light. J. Crown. Fly as a dream. Sacred Script., A. Philips, 
ty others. Fly light as an empty dream, or vagrant wind. 
Doynes Tasso. Fly away as a vision of the night. Sacred 
Script. Fly like dreams before the morning ray. Sir W. Jones. 
Fly like an empty vision. C. Churchill. — like the pictures of 
a morning dream. Akenside. — like a dream, when man awakes. 
Watts. Like a dream, flying at the face of day. Arcadia, a 
Pastoral. Fly as fast as Iris, or Jove's Mercury. Marlowe. 
— more swift than Venus drawn by doves. Banks. Fly away 
swift like Daphne. Langhorne. Fly swift as a maiden, who 
unawares a latent snake espies. Hook's Ariosto. Fly away 
like a bird. Sacred Script. — as an eagle. Ibid. — as the eagle 
that hasteth to eat. Ibid. Fly faster than the Tropic bird. 
Grainger. Fly swift as a falcon through the yielding air. 
Hooles Ariosto. — like a flock of doves before a falcon's view. 
Spenser. Like a flock of doves who see the hawk appear, 
they turned and fled. Andromache, in Greek Tragic Theatre. 
Fly as doves do from a falcon. «/. Taylor. — as doth a fearful 
dove, when any noise doth scare her. Haringtons Ariosto. — 
like timorous doves, what time some strange approaching noise 
they hear. Hooles Ariosto. — like doves from eagles. Dry den. 
— like timorous doves before the stooping eagle. L. Theobald. 
Quick as an eagle darting on his prey, 
Or lapwing skims on glancing plumes away, 
Or dove on rapid pinions sweeps the vale, 
Thus flew the ship before the rising gale. Ogilvie. 
Fly like lambs from wolves. Dryden. Behold them wing their 
rapid flight, as trembling birds from hungry vultures fly. 
Ajax, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Fly me as a trembling fawn 
would a tiger or a lion. Play, Win her and take her. Fly 



FOR 

like a youthful hart or roe. Watts. Fly fast as hind. Spenser. 
— like the swift hind. Gay. Fly fast as roe-buck through the 
fen. Ibid. Like a young bounding roe that scuds it o'er the 
lawns to 'scape the hunter, so did she fly confused. Charles 
Marsh. Fly like harts before their swift pursuers. Quarles. 
Fly affrighted, as a hare before his hunters. Potter's Eschylus. 
— like rats from sinking ships. Dunkin. — as frighted pas- 
sengers from off the strand, when the tempestuous sea comes 
roaring on them. Young. Fly her, as a raven from the ark. 
Byron. Fly before them like the horizon. Burke. Fly quick 
as scandal. Cornwall, R. Bloomfield. Fly quick as an arrow. 
Southey. Fly from them like an arrow. S. Rousseau's Flowers 
of Persian Literature. Shame shall fly like a poisoned arrow 
into his heart. South, Fly from temptation as they would 
from the regions of death, and the mansions of the damned. 
South. Fly as if your ghostly enemy had come before you in 
his most hideous and horrible form. W. Painter s Palace of 
Pleasure. Fly from me as from infection. Rawlins. Fly thee 
as they would a pestilence. Plays, Enchanted Wood, ty Mont- 
alto. Fly thee like a noisome plague. R. Shiel. Fly from 
them as he would from the mouth of a cannon, or the breath 
of a pest-house. South. Fly from sin, as from the face of a 
serpent. Ecclesiasticus. Fly as from a scorpion. Marlowe. 
Fly thy clasping arm as 'twere the poisonous adder. Mason. 
Fly from him, as you would from a fierce basilisk. Play, Dif- 
ferent Widows. 

FOAMING like a mountain cataract. W. Wordsworth. 

FOLLOW her like a shadow. Mrs. Cooper. — as shadow follows 
a beam of sunshine, when the clouds are drawing over the 
face of the sun. Sir W. Scott. Night followeth day as a 
shadow followeth a body. Wit's Commonwealth. 

FOND as a child. Otway. — as pigeons. R. B. Sheridan. — as two 
turtles. /. Worsdale. Fonder than ignorance. Shakespear. 

FORERUN, as lightning does the thunder. Dryden. — as budding 
flowers forerun the blooming year. C. Beckingham. 



FOR 

FORGOTTEN as a dream. Sylvester. 

FORMAL as simple men in authority. Sir W. Davenant. 

FOUL as the fiends which fell from heaven's high towers. Dry- 
den. — as sin. Poetical Calendar. — as hell. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher •, 
Sir W. Davenant) fy others. Your face looks fouler than a 
storm. Beaumont § Fletcher. Her credit is more foul than 
speckled scandal, or black murder's soul. /. Day. Foul as 
infamy. T.Hull. — as blotted pestilence. R. Shiel. — as Vulcan's 
smithy. Shakespear. — as ditch water. Tobin. 

FRAGILE. Weak and fragile like Arachne's line. Denham. 

FRAGRANT as the spring. Theobald. — as the morn. Dods- 
leijs Collection, Scott of Amwell, fy others. — as the balmy 
breath of morn. Thomson. Fragrant and cheerful as the 
rising day. Tate. — as the summer air. Sir W. Jones. — as the 
breathings of Arabian air. T. Moore. — as eastern winds or 
garden breezes, that steal the sweets of roses in their flights. 
Banks. — as the gentle wind when it passes over the heads 
of sweetest flowers. Thomas Bayly's Wall-Jlower. Breath, 
more fragrant than Arabia's gale. Ann Yearsley. Fragrant 
as the dew of May. Garth. — as the violet as it blooms. 
Poetical Calendar. — as zephyr's breath cast on a bank of sum- 
mer's violets. Play, Costly Whore. Fragrant and precious as 
the prime virgins of the spring ; the violets, when they do first 
display their early beauties, till all the winds in love do grow 
contentious which from their lips should ravish the first kisses. 
Chapman. More fragrant than violet buds fresh opening to 
the morning's eye. C. Bullock. — than a rose. E. Ward. Fra- 
grant as the damask rose. Ramsay. — as the blowing rose. 
Jacob. — as the morning rose. Chapman. — as roses newly 
sprung. James Hogg. — as roses fresh with early bloom, that 
from their native stalk dispense perfume. Sir W. Jones. — as 
rose water. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Literature. — as 
mountain thyme. Poetical Calendar. More fragrant than the 
sweet carnation. E. Ward. Fragrant as the lily's perfume. 
Mrs. Brooke. More fragrant than fresh odours shed from 



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lily's perfumed breath, or scent of vernal rose. Sotheby's Obe~ 
ron. Fragrant as the flower -scented heath at the dawning of 
day. Mrs. Brooke. — as the breath of flowers. W. Thompson. 
— as the hawthorn in bloom. Mrs. Brooke. Fragrant and 
blooming as the May drest thorn. Jane West. — as the blos- 
soms of May. Mrs. Brooke. More fragrant and fair than 
sweet breathing blossoms. M. Pilkington. Fragrant as mea- 
dow flowers in triumphant June. Jordan. — as the flower of the 
Amra just opened by a bee. T. Moore. — as jasmine. S. Rous- 
seau s Flowers of Persian Literature. — as the phoenix' nest. 
Play, Triumphs of Virtue. 

Not the phoenix in his death, 

Nor those banks where vi'lets grow, 

And Arabian winds still blow, 

Yield a perfume like her breath. Habington. 
More fragrant than Sabaean spice. Aurelia, a Poem. — than 
Arabia sacrificed, and all her spicy mountains in a flame. E. 
Young. — than all the sweets of Arabia. T. Herbert. Fragrant 
as Eastern groves. Dryden. More fragrant than the smell of 
new-mown hay. W. Ward's Gentle Shepherd. 

FRAIL as fair mortality. Byron. — as the flower. E. Young. — 
as dew upon the flower. Campbell. — as the leaf in autumn's 
yellow bower. Ibid. — as the clouds of sunset. Montgomery. — 
as dust in the wind. Campbell. — as is the film upon the thorn, 
whose thin web stretches o'er the vale. Poem, Margaret ojAnjou. 

FRANK and merry as Mirth herself. Play, Merry Devil of 
Edmonton. 

FRANTIC as the tiger o'er his prey. Massinger. 

FREE as liberty. Savage; The Farm-house, a Farce. — as thought. 
Play, Orgula; C. Butler, ty others. — Free and unconfined as 
thought. M. Bladen. — as virtue. Randolph. — as bending an- 
gels. Shakespear. — as innocence. /. Shirley. — as first inno- 
cence. Otway. — as innocence can make me. A. Hill. Free 
of offence like cherubs in a state of innocence. E. Ward. 
Free from guilt as innocence itself. May. Free from shame 



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as truth's fair nakedness. Sir W. Davenant. Free as truth is 
from falsehood, or sanctity from stain. Middleton. — as nature. 
Thomson. — as nature's morn. W. S. Landor. — as nature first 
made man. Dry den, — as the sun. Chapman, Banks. Free 
and general as the sun. Play, Edward the Third. — as the sun's 
rays. T. Heywood. — as light. A. Bushe, Banks, fy others. — 
as the vital breeze, or light of heaven. Akenside. Free and 
faithful as light. Coffey. — as air. N. Field, Beaumont 8$ 
Fletcher, 8$ others. — as the common air. Thomson. — as ele- 
mental air. Tate. — as the air he breathes. Glapthorne, Den- 
ham. Free and unconfined as air, Miscellany of Poems, by 
J. Husbands, Broome. Walk more free than the unlimited air. 
Play, Christmas Ordinary. Free as mountain air. W. Hcm- 
mings, J. Dillon. — as the vagrant air. G. Keate. Free as the 
air, and transient as its blast. W. Mason. — as the wind. 
Shakespear, Duchess of Newcastle, fy others. — as mountain 
winds. Shakespear, Byron, § others. Walk free as winds 
that pass unseen. Sir W. Davenant. Free as seas, or wind. 
Pope. — as fire, or wind. Watts. — as the gale. Samuel Bam- 
ford. — as fragrant gales that breathe o'er laughing lawns 
and beds of roses sweet. Paul Hiffernan. — as the zephyr's 
wing. Garrick. — as ocean's spray. Byron. — as the bound- 
less wave. Landon. — as a bird. R. Bloomfield. — as the 
birds of air. P. Pindar. — as the linnet's wing. Shenstone. 
— as birds let loose into the air. Sir W. Davenant. — as a 
bird on a tree. C. Dibdin. — as the birds that sport in yonder 
boughs. H. Boyd. As a falcon free, that soareth in the air. 
Surrey. Free as roving lions. N. Lee. — as flowers in meads 
and plains. Behn. — as fountain, air, or flower. W. Cartwright. 
— as fate. T. Heywood. — as emperors. Marston. As shepherds 
free on mountain heath. R. Bloomfield. Free as rivers that 
are got to sea. Sir W. Davenant. — as fish that glide through 
the deep. T. Killigrew. — as light, air, fire, water. Montgomery. 
— as an open house at Christmas. Vanbrugh. 
FREEZE like a wind broke from the icy prison of the North. 
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FRESH as day. Spenser, Garth. — as the early day. W. Cart- 
wright, Pope, fy others. — as the bright summer's day. Chaucer. 
— as the dawning light. Milton. — as the rising dawn. So- 
mervile. — as summer's dawn. Ramsay. — as the morn. Pope ; 
Play, Belisarius, by Philips. — as morning. Giles Fletcher, 
Durfey, 8$ others. — as blushing morn. Poems, Forest of Va- 
rieties. As Aurora's blushing morn. Garth. As Aurora be- 
fore the rising sun. Play, Amorous Old Woman. — as the 
breath of morn. P. Pindar. — as the spring. Fountain ; Play, 
Romulus fy Hersilia, 8$ others. — as the blooming spring. Ro- 
mulus fy Hersilia. Fresh and blooming as the youthful spring. 
R. Barford. — as the pride of spring. Beaumont fy Fletcher. 
Fresh, sweet, and pleasant as the spring. Duchess of New- 
castle. Fresh and delightful as the chequered spring. Play, 
Muleasses the Turk. Fresh as the spring, and fragrant as its 
flowers. N. Rowe. A beauty, fresh and promising as spring. 
Sir W. Davenant. Beauty, fresh as the new spring's, when wan- 
ton Phoebus mounts his burnished chariot early to salute her, 
and kiss dew from her cheeks. Nabbs. Fresh as April. Ca- 
rew. — as May. Chaucer, Spenser, fy others. Fresh and blithe 
as May. John Keefe. — as the month of May. Chaucer, Lilly, 
ty others. Fresh and youthful as the month of May. L. Bar- 

. rey. Fresh and blooming as the month of May. Pope. — as 
the lovely form of youthful May. Sotheby's Oberon. — as mea- 
dow in a morn of May. Lilly. — as a morning in May. The 
Footman, an Opera. Fresh and jocund as the breast of May. 
Marston. Fresher than the May with flowers new. Chaucer. 
Than May herself in blossoms new. Dryden. Fresh as an 
April blossom. R. Shiel. — as the lively verdure of the spring. 
Francis North. Fresh and green and sweet as Flora. Her- 
rick. — as Flora in her prime. Spenser. Fresher than the 
morning dew. Tatham. Fresh as morning's dew distilled on 
flowers. Shakespear. Fresher than the dew that early sits on 
roses. Durfey. Fresh as the dew that drops from morning's 
wings. T. Moore. — as the dew that drops from bounteous hea- 
ven in the morning, to make the shadowy bank pregnant with 

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violets. Habington. — as any flower. Plays, Marriage of Wit 
Sj- Science, Fair Em, Marriage Broker, fy others. Fresh and 
fair as summer flowers spring from their winter bed. — Beau- 
mont's Psyche. — as May flowers. Fawkes — as May rose. Syl- 
vester. — as flowers in May. Play, Mundus § Infans ; Skelton, 
fy others. — as flowers in the month of May. Lidgate. — as 
flower of May. Spenser, Gay. — fresh and gay as the flowers 
in May. Dryderis Miscellany, L. Macnally. Fresh and 
flourishing as the flowers in May. L. Wager. — as the flower 
amid the sunny showers of May. M. Bruce. — as branch in 
May. Chaucer. — as flowers in June. D. Belchier. — as flowers 
in meadow green do grow, when morning dew upon their leaves 
doth light. Spenser. More fresh than flowery meads. G. 
Sandys. Fresh as a bloom that newly kissed the sun, adorned 
with pearly drops flung from the hand of the rose-fingered 
morn. Rawlins. — as the floweret opening on the morn, whose 
leaves bright drops of liquid pearl adorn. Beattie. — as breath- 
ing flowers sweet smelling in the morning dew. W. Hamilton. 
More fresh and fair than blossoms which the morning air 
steals perfume from. R. Lloyd, Arcadia. Fresh as the balm. 
J. Ford. — as the buds of roses. T. Middleton. — as a rose- 
bud newly blown. Somervile. — -as a rose. Chaucer, Durfey, 
fy others.— -Fresh and ruddy as a rose. Play, Spanish Bawd. 
— as roses blown. Ramsay. — as roses newly blown. E. Ward. 
— as morning rose. Spenser. Play, Faithful Shepherd, fy others. 
Fresher than the maiden rose. Peaps. Fresh as the rose 
in the gay dewy morning. Burns. Fresher than the sum- 
mer's dewy rose. Salmagundy. Her form was fresher than 
the morning rose, when the dew wets its leaves. Thomson. 
Fresher than roses dipped in fragrant dew. Mrs. S. Gunning. 
Fresher and sweeter than a rose new blown. Fanshaw. 
Fresh as a new-blown rose. Mr. Tom's Accomplished Maid. 
Fresh and fragrant as a new-blown rose. Theophilus Gib- 
ber, — as the vernal rose. Dr. Johnson.— as a rose in May. 
C. Molloy. — as a rose in June. Reuben Bourne. — as da- 
mask rose. Warner, in England's Parnassus. A colour fresh 



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as damask rose. Warner's Albion's England. Fresh and 
fragrant as the Fleur de luce. Spenser. Fresh and fine as 
a daisy. Cumberland. — as daffodil, that in a garden grows. 
Sylvester. Fresh and verdant as the garden of Eden. E. Irving. 
— as the verdant olive. Merrick. Fresh as the leaf his name 
shall live. Watts. Fresher than green grass. Fraunce. Fresh 
as air. Glapthorne, H. Faughan, fy others. — as the gales of 
dawn. J. Dillon. — as the zephyr on the hill. Fawkes. Fresh 
and gay, like infant nature. C. Davenant. Fresh as childhood. 
Sacred Script. — as youth. Duke of Newcastle. Feel fresh, 
as in youth's fair morning. Southey. Fresh as the Hours. 
H. Vaughan. Fresher than Hebe, or the rosy Hours. Harriet 
Downing. Fresh as Dian's visage. Shakespear. — as the wave. 
Thurlow. — as falcon coming out of mew. Chaucer. As eagle 
fresh out of the ocean wave. Spenser. Go attire yourself 
fresh as a bridegroom when he meets his bride. Dekker. Fresh 
as a new minted sixpence. Marston. 

FRESHEN like drooping flowers in the heat of summer, after 
a hastening shower. W. Taverner. 

FRET like a chafed lion. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — like a gummed 
velvet. Shakespear — like a gummed silk. /. Baillie. 

FRTGHTFUL as the serpent's hiss. Shakespear. Frightful to 
me, as a judge to a criminal upon passing sentence of death. 
W. Taverner. 

FRISK like a goat. /. Shirley. 

FRIVOLOUS as gamesters' oaths. Dilke. 

FROLICK, as the hunters in the chase of savage beasts, amid 
the desert woods. Marlowe. 

FROWARD as children suddenly waked. Sir W. Davenant. 

FROZEN. More frozen than the Alps. John Fletcher. 

FRUITFUL as the free elements. Shakespear. — as the genial 
spring. N. Cotton. — as autumn. Fountain. — as the full-grown 
year. Poem, Progress of Wit. — as the fertile earth. Duchess of 

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Newcastle. — as the Nile. Dryden. — as the meads of Paradise. 
Play, Three English Brothers. — as the vine. Sir W. Davenant. 
— as the swelling vine. C. Cotton. 

FUGITIVE as time himself. Sir TV. Scott. — as wind. Thomas 
Gent. 

FULL. As full of spirit as the month of May. Shahespear. — Full 
of charms, as nature in the spring is rich in blossoms. R. Shiel. 
Full of beauty, as a rose is of sweetness. Play, Rape upon 
Rape. I am as full of humour as an April day of variety. T. 
Heywood. She was full of virtues, as the milky way upon a 
frozen night is thick with stars. R. Shiel. As full of sorrows, 
as a sea of sands. Shahespear. My mouth was as full of wit, 
as the sea of water. Durfey. Full of dullness, as an egg is 
full of meat. Fielding. Full of business, as an egg is full of 
meat. G. Colman jun. Full as an egg. Gay. — as an egg is 
of meat. W. Davies. — as Westminster-hall the last day of Term. 
Fielding. 

FULSOME as howling after music. Shahespear. 

FURIOUS as a whirlwind. A. Hill. — as Libyan whirlwinds. C. 
Cibber. — as the wind. Otway. — as when Boreas tears the shat- 
tered crags from off the mountain cliffs. Doyne's Tasso. — as 
boisterous winds that have their prison broke, roar on a forest. 
Sylvester. — as a flame of fire. G. Townsend. — as stormy bil- 
lows rush against a rock. Sylvester. — as the sweeping wave. 
Byron. — as heaven's sulphury flash against proud mountains' 
surly brows doth dash. Sylvester. — as a bear bereaved of her 
whelps. Sacred Script. — as a tiger. /. Corey. Wild and fu- 
rious, like a raging tiger. Lidgate. Furious as an enraged 
tiger. // Trionfo della Costanza. Furious like a lion. Lidgate. 

G. 

GABBLE like a goose. Dryden. 

GAPE as the oyster for the tide. Jonson. — like oysters. Beau- . 






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mont fy Fletcher. — like the cracks of earth when dried to sum- 
mer dust. Byron. 

GATHER like a snow-ball. Webster, Baron, fy others. — like a 
rolling snow-ball. Play, Abdicated Prince. — like a tide. Pitt. 
In multitudes gathering like waves on the strand. Landon. 
Gather as they run, like growing water. Byron. 

GAUDY as the summer. J. Shirley, — as a tulip. Durfey. — as 
peacocks. Burgoyne, Cumberland. 

GAUNT as famished wolves. Chapman. — as a grave. Shake- 
spear. 

GAY as the morn. Porteus. — as nature at the morning smile. 
Chatterton. — as the vernal morning, when rosy Phoebus woos 
the sprightly May. Miss Porden. Gay and youthful as a new 
summer's morn. Behn. Gay as morning blushing at the gate 
of day. W. Richardson. More gay than light. J. Ford, Dry- 
den's Miscellany, fy others. — than morning light. Garth. Gay 
as the streaks that stain the gaudy bow. Madarts laudatory 
verses on Pope. — as the spring. T. Yalden, in Dryden's Mis- 
cellany; Durfey, fy others. — as the gilded summer sky. Burns. 
Gay and teeming as the summer. Fielding. Gay and buxom 
as a summer's day. John Clare. Gay and pleasant as the 
month of June. Centlivre. — as heaven. Chaucer. Gay and 
entertaining as the golden beams of the rich planet that adorns 
the day. L. Theobald. Make nature smile as gay, as at first 
she did on her creation day. Durfey. Gay is her smile as 
those the Queen of love darts on the Graces in her court 
above. Hayley. — as the bird. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. — 
as a lark. G. Colmanjun., O'Keeffe, fy others. — as linnets. Shen- 
stone. — as a peacock. Chaucer. — as a goldfinch. Sir W. Scott. 
More gay and artless than the birds that sing their tuneful son- 
nets on the leafy spray. Harriet Falconer. Gay as a lamb in 
a spring morning. Sir W. Scott. — as the roe-buck springing 
o'er the vale. Jane West. — as the gilded fly, that idly wanders 
in the noon-tide air. Edinburgh Collection, 1767. Gaily as 
the summer fly. Cornwall. More gay than butterflies. Oding- 



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sells, Barham Livius. Gay as the zephyrs of summer. M. G. 
Lewis. — as Flora. Donne, R. Lloyd. More elegant and gay 
than Flora blooming in a morn of May. /. Smith. Gay as 
gardens in the month of May. J. Walton. Gay and bloom- 
ing as the garden of Eden. Elizabeth Carter, in the Rambler. — 
as Paradise, when first its sweetness bloomed. Play, Woman s 

Conquest, by E. Howard. — as Elysium. Play, Necromancer. 
— as a tulip. Lacy. Gayer than tulips in the spring. Shadwell. 

Gay and beautiful like a flower in the spring. W. Sherlock. 

— as youth. T. Holcroft. — as a bride. Play, The Mistakes ; 

Odingsells. — as a bridegroom. Blackmore, Joseph Fawcet, § 

others. — as young bridegrooms. C.Johnson. — as mirth. Savage. 

More gay than glittering gold. R. Southey. 

GAZE like startled deer. Sir W. Scott. Stand at gaze, as do 
the herds of deer at some strange sight. T. Heywood. With 
such insatiate raptures, mothers gaze upon their darling in- 
fants, when they see the smiling babes from pangs of death 
relieved. Pix. 

GENERAL as the sun. Play, Edward the Third. — as the day. 
C. Churchill. — as the air. Colman, Burke, 8? others. 

GENEROUS as a prince. Centlivre, Garrick, fy others. — as spring 
dews that bless the glad ground. Sir W. Scott. 

GENTLE and kind as sympathizing nature. Otway. — as nature 
in its infancy. Settle. — as evening. A. Marvel. — as the golden 
star of eve. Akenside. She plays gentle as star-beams on the 
midnight seas. Watts. Gentler than light. A. Cowley. Gentle 
as Cynthia's silver beam. Ode to Fancy. — as the morn. Poems 
on State Affairs, N. Lee, 8$ others. — as a morn of May. The 
Liberal. — as the yielding air. Dodsley's Collection. — as soft 
summer airs. W. Cowper. — as winds, when Zephyr blows. 
B. Booth. — as the breath of even. W. Richardson. — as the brush- 
ing wind runs o'er the gentler flowers. Jonson. — as winds that 
stir the groves of spring. Doyne's Tasso. Gentle and smooth 
as water when no wind breathes on it. Marmion. — as the gale 
which moves the grass. Ossian. — as the gale, whose breath per- 



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fumes anew the blossomed vale. A. Seward. Gentler than gales 
that wave their musky wings in Aden's aromatic vales. W. 
Richardson. Gentle in peace as the gale of spring, fierce in 
war as the mountain storm. Ossian. — as the gale of spring. W, 
Richardson. — as the undisturbed air. Behn. — as the whispering 
gale. Mickle. — as the southern gale. /. Hogg. Each word is 
gentle as a western breeze that fans the infant bosom of the 
spring. Southern. Gentle as breeze that but whispers and dies. 
Sir W, Scott.— as the twilight breeze. Mary Robinson. — as 
the breeze that sighs at evening hour, on the soft bosom of 
some folding flower. Langhorne. — as the halcyon breeze sent 
from the evening sea, to bless the shore after the fervours of a 
tropic noon. Montgomery. Voice, gentle as the breeze that 
plays in the evening among the spices of Sabsea. Dr. Johnson. 
— as the summer's breeze. Glover. — as the summer's breeze 
that mildly whispers. Dry den, — as Zephyrs blowing below the 
violet, not moving its sweet head. Shakespear, R. Berenger. 
Gentle and sweet as vernal Zephyr blows, fanning the lily 
or the blooming rose. E, Young. — as the breath of Zephyrus. 
A. Cowley. Her temper is gentle as the zephyr's breath. Play, 
Selima fy Azor. Gentle as the zephyr, yet blithe as the leaf 
that dances in its eddy. Morton. — as the murmur of a sigh. Poem, 
Abelard to Eloisa. — as dew. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. 
— as the dews of heaven. W. Richardson. — as falling dew. 
Cooke's Hesiod. — as descending dews, W. Thompson. Gently 
as dews descend, or slumbers creep. N, Rowe. Gently as 
falls the balmy dew from heaven. Ibid. Gently as evening 
dews shut up the rose. Play, Romulus fy Hersilia. Gentle as 
the dews which evening sheds o'er expiring day. M. G. Lewis. 
as evening dews descending on the flowery vale. W. Richardson. 
Thy nature is as gentle as morning dew just melting into air. 
Fountain. Like the fresh leaf of the rose, thy nature is gentleness. 
S. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Literature. Gentle as dews 
at even-tide. C. Churchill. Caress you gently as the morning 
dew falls on the opening rose, or the fleece of snow on the bosom 
of the cold vale. Play, Win her and take her. Gentle as sum- 



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mer's soft descending rains. Mrs. S. Gunning. — as flakes of 
feathered snow descend. Poetical Calendar. Gentle, pure, and 
sweet as breath of evening flowers. Porteus. — as the perfume of 
flowers. Sturm. — as rising incense. Thompson, in Dodsleys Col- 
lection. — as a lamb. Shakespear -, Play, Shoemaker's Holiday ; fy 
others. — as the fleecy lamb. A. Bicknell. — as the unweaned 
lamb. R. B. Sheridan. Gentle and patient as a lamb. C. Dib- 
din. — as a dove. C. Trotter, Fielding, 8f others. — as the gall- 
less dove. Howard fy Dryderis Indian Queen. — as is the ten- 
der dove. J. Stagg. — as the harmless dove. W. Hamilton. 
Gentle and soft as the dove. Poem, Sorrows of Love. — as kids 
that suck their milky dams. Sir Thomas Moore. Gentle and 
soft as notes of dying swans. Baron. — like a goddess. Cockain. 
— as a new-born child. C. Churchill. — as an infant child. W. 
Wordsworth. — as innocence. TV. Rose. — as blooming innocence. 
R. Hurst. — as a maid. The Liberal. — as a happy lover's sigh. 
Settle. — as a love-sick youth, when his dear conqueress sighs 
a hope into him. Behn. — as bridal smiles. Sir TV. Davenant 
Gentle as the touch that falls on serenader's moon-lit instru- 
ment. Cornwall. Words, gentler far than those that holy 
priests do speak to dying saints. Fountain. Gently as sleep 
the weary lids invades. Mickle. Gentle as hermits sleeping in 
their mossy cells, lulled by the fall of waters. TV. Thompson. 
How gentle is his sleep ! Such always is the sleep of innocence 
in youth or age. B. Martyn. Gentle as a glove. Congreve. 

GHASTLIER than death. Southey. 

GIDDY as a goose. Burgoyne. 

GLAD as the wrecked swimmer, when he feels the land. T. Hey- 
ivood. Gladly as the parched earth drinks health out of the 
cup of heaven. S.Rowley. Gladden like the spring. Pasquin. 
Gladdening as day. Ibid. 

GLANCE like lightning. Sir TV. Scott, J. Bird.— like a flash of 
lio-htning. Play, Portsmouth Heiress. — like a falling star. Byron. 
— like a meteor. Sir TV. Scott. — like sudden gleams that glow 
through autumn clouds. T. Moore. A keener glance darts 



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not the hawk, when from the feathered tribe he marks his vic- 
tim. Southey. 
GLARING as the noon- tide sun. E. Young. Glaring and evi- 
dent as the sun shining at noon-day. Tillotson. Glaring and 
gay as falling Lucifer. Pomfret. His vengeful eye, fierce as a 
fiery vapour, glared on the foe. /. Bird. 

GLEAM like an orient star. Sir W. Jones. — like lightning 'midst 
a thunder cloud. James Campbell. — like broken moon-light 
rippling on the stream. Montgomery. Gleam ruddy, like the 
beacon's light. Sir W. Scott. — like the diamond dew. Landon. 
— like gold. Southey. 

GLIB. A tongue glib as oil. Durfey. 

GLIDE as smoothly as a Parthian shaft. Kyd. Glide, like a 
shooting exhalation, out of their sight. Chapman. Glide away 
like a shadow. R. Greene. Glide light as the breath of open- 
ing morn o'er beds of unsunn'd violets borne. Poem, Illusions 
of Fancy. Glide away as gentle streams. C. Johnson. 

GLIMMER like faint stars in a twilight sky. Scott of Arnwell. 
— like a meteor. S. Rogers. — like dying tapers. Pix. 

GLISTER like the sun. Play, Ccesars Revenge ; N. Richards. 
— like the summer's sun. Peele. — like the palace of the sun. 
Play, Battle ofAlcaza. Glistering as bright as Phoebus orient. 
A. Barclay. Glistering as the sun. G. Peele. — like a star. 
T. Heywood, South, ty others. — like gold. Devices of sundry 
Gentlemen. Glistering as gold bright. Barclay. 

GLITTER like a star. Chapman, Banks, 8$ others. — like a 
bright starry planet. Palace of Pleasure, by William Painter. 
— like a starry sky. W. Wordsworth. — like a sun-beam. 
Sotheby's Oberon. — like a flame. Chapman. — like a gem. 
Akenside. — like burnished gold. Southey. — like crescents 
over a Turk's pavilion. Byron. — like morning dew. Poem, 
Modem Manners. — as a glow-worm. W. Tennant. 

GLITTERING as Phoebus. H. Bradshaw.— like the sun. Sir 
W. Scott. — as when suns by thousands shine in orbs of dew. 



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Parnell. — like crystal glass. Spenser. — like a star. Dryden. 
like a refulgent star. Blackmore. — like the morning star. 
Burke. — like the moon's bright rays, or that clear silver path 
the milk-white way, that in Olympus leads to Jove's high 
court. G. Peek. 

GLOOMY as night. Milton, Pope, fy others. — as a November 
evening. Play, Right fy Wrong. — as death. Mr. May's King 
Asa. — as hell. G. Townsend. — as the grave. G. Croly. — like 
the gathering of clouds. Ossian. — as the bursting storm, when 
low'ring clouds autumnal skies deform. Miss P or den. Gloomy 
and uncomfortable as a surly winter's day without sunshine. 
John Baillie. 

GLORIOUS as the sun. Randolph, Marmion, 'fy others. — as the 
rising sun. South. — as the sun at noon. Otway. More glori- 
ous than the noon-day sun. R. Barford. — like the sun in his 
meridian. Davenport. Glorious and charming as the mid-day's 
sun. Behn. Glorious he stood as a bright sun set amid the 
stars. Lidgate. Glorious as the western sun. Play, Timoleon. 
— like the setting sun. Crown. — as the summer sun sets in the 
full refulgence of his ray. The Cossack, by R. Ely. — as the 
eye of heaven. A. Cowley. — as the day. M. Stevenson, Doyne's 
Tasso. Glorious and light as day. C. Cotton. — as mid-day. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher, T. Betterton. — as the noon. Watts. — as 
the light. W. Cartwright. — as when the pure and first created 
light broke through the chaos. Suckling. — as the morn. So- 
mervile. — as a summer morn. W. Tennant. — as the morning 
washed with dew. Play, Taming of a Shrew. — as the morning 
ray. Beaumont's Psyche. Glorious to the view, as young Au- 
rora decked with pearly dew. Countess of Winchilsea. More 
glorious than the bright empress of the ruddy morn when early 
Titan rises. Durfey. — as the morning star in the midst of a 
cloud. Sacred Script. — as the moon at the full. Ibid. — as the 
rainbow giving light in the bright clouds. Ibid. — as the spring. 
Massinger. — as the flower of roses in the spring of the year. 
Sacred Script. — as unclouded May. Tobin. — as a diamond 



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richly set. Byron. More glorious than the Indian gem. John 
Gait. Glorious as Mars. Sir W. Davenant. He was as the 
morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the 
full ; as the sun shining upon the temple of the Most High, 
and as a rainbow giving light in the bright clouds. Ecclesias- 
ticus. 

GLOW like summer suns. Campbell. — like the sun with pure 
unwearied lustre. Merry. — like burning noon. Watts. Glow- 
ing as the summer blaze at noon. W. Thompson. — like heaven. 
T. Moore. Glowing like a flame. Zimri, an Oratorio. — like 
the morning star. Ossian. — like morn when spring's soft ze- 
phyr blows. PolwheWs Theocritus. — like radiant morn when 
Sol's bright rays his blushing east adorn. Charlotte Brookes' 
Reliques of Irish Poetry. Glow as with the blushes of an 
evening sky. Ahenside. Glowing as the vestals' holy fires. 
TV. Thompson. Glow like a volcano. Sir W. Scott. — as a fiery 
oven. Watts.— -like a fiery spark. Sir W. Scott. — like a fiery 
brand. Ibid. — like fire brands. Vatheh. — like steel upon the 
anvil. Sir W. Scott. 

GOLDEN as the sun. /. Ford. 

GORGEOUS as the sun at midsummer. Shakespear, 

GRACEFUL as the Queen of love. G. Townsend. — as Dian 
when she draws her bow. Byron. Not with more grace the 
nectar'd cup is given by rose-lipp'd Hebe to the Lord of Hea- 
ven. Hayley. One there was like orient morn, and graceful 
as of goddess born. Cottle's Icelandic Poetry. 

GRACIOUS as the morning star of heaven. Play, Friar Bacon. 

GRADUAL and silent as the extension of evening shadows. 
Dr. Johnson. 

GRATEFUL as May. Lovibond. — as the rosy month of May. 
W. Thompson. — as the dawn of day. N. Rorve. — as sun-shine 
to the sportive lambs. Jago. To me more grateful than the 
orb of day crowned with the glories of celestial light. C. Fox. 
Grateful as when Titan's golden beam first dawns upon the 



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new-recovered sight of one long fated to the dreary glooms of 
darkness. J. G. Cooper. — as (at noon's sultry hour) the grot 
where trickling dews congeal. Salmagandy. — as fanning gales 
to fainting swains. Gay. — as dews to blossoms. W. Thompson. 
as blossoms to the bee. Ibid. Tear-drops, more grateful than 
the morning dew on dying plants. C. Lennox. Grateful as 
the silver drops of kindly rain to drooping plants and thirsty 
fields. Ibid. — as the thunder's cloud in summer's burning sea- 
son, that brings hope of wonted rain. Doyne's Tasso. — as fall- 
ing floods to lovesick minds. Gay. — as the tuneful linnet's 
warbling notes to the shepherd. W. Thompson. — as the flower 
that pays with sweets the genial summer's bounty. G. Keate. 
No external sensation is so grateful to the body, as the touch 
of the soft cheeks of one's own child. Specimens of Hindoo Li- 
terature, by N. E. Kindersley. 

GRAVE as a judge. Addison, Colman. Talk gravely as a judge. 
E. Ward. Speak as gravely as a justice of peace. Play, 
Shoemaker s Holiday. Grave as a tetrarch. Play, Game of 
Chess. — as an owl. Somervile. Look grave as an owl in a 
barn. Farquhar. Grave as an old abbess. Sir W. Davenant. 
Long, grave, and sullen as a mourning cloak. Ibid. Look as 
grave and thoughtful as rich mourners. Ibid. 

GREAT as Jove. Gay. — as a God. Pope. — as an emperor. 
Gay. — as a king. Durfey, E. Ward, fy others. — as Philip's 
victor son. Prior. Greater than a monarch on his throne. 
Dryden. Great and commanding as the breath of kings. N. 
Rowe. — as a duchess. Somervile. Greater than fame. Duke 
of Guise, by Dryden 8$ Lee. 

GREEDY as the grave. Cumberland. — as wolves. Otway. — as 
kites. A. Marvel. Greedy of it as a cat is of a dish of milk. 
Tatham. Greedier than the sea. South. Greedily as bees 
suck sweetness from the fragrant stock of Flora's early bounty, 
Tatham. 

GREEN as spring. Hunt. — as a laurel. Chaucer, Wyatt. — as 
the bay-tree. Marmion, T. Shadwell, fy others. — as grass. 






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Gascoigne, Common Prayer Booh, 8$ others. — as the spring 
grass in a sunny shower. Southey. — as the leaf. Watts. — as a 
leek. Chaucer, Gascoigne, 8$ others. — as Cambrian leek. Bre- 
val. — as May. T.Shadwell. — as the salt sea billows. W.Words- 
worth. Leaves, green as the sea. /. Wilson, author of Isle of 
Palms. Green as gall. Chaucer. — as emeralds. T. Moore. 
No emerald greener ever was. H. Peacham. 

GREY as the morning's eye. F. Beaumont. — as January. Tom- 
Ms. — as glass. Chaucer, Gascoigne, ty others. — as a goose. 
Chaucer, fy others. — as a falcon. Chaucer. — as a badger. P. 
Pindar. 

GRIEVE like Niobe. Shahespear. 

GRIEVOUS as for one to read over his debts when he is not 
able to pay them. South. — as for a bankrupt to examine and 
look into his accounts, which at the same time that they ac- 
quaint, must needs also upbraid him with his condition. Ibid. 
More grievous than the pains of death. Home. 

GRIM as hell. Shahespear. — as voracious wolves. Pope. More 
grim than death. Quarles, Centlivre. 

GRIZZLED as a silver-haired rabbit. Sir Chas. Sedley. 

GROSS as a mountain. Shahespear. — as earth. Ibid. Fools, as 
gross as ignorance made drunk. Ibid. 

GROW like Hydra's heads. Shahespear. — as the vine. Sacred 

Script. — as the lily. Ibid. The family grew like an oak on 

the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. 

Ossian. 
GRUNTING like a hog. /. Taylor. 
GUIDE. I will guide your tottering steps as prosperous gales 

assist the voyage of the bark. Phoenician Damsels, in Greek 

Tragic Theatre. 
GUILEFUL as the hunter's snare. S. Rousseau s Flowers of 

Persian Literature. 
GUILELESS as the dews of dawn. T. Moore. 
GUILTLESS as innocence. Gomersal. — as an infant's dreams. 

Settle. 



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HALLOWED as is Heaven's self. TV. Mason. 

HANDSOME as an angel. Southern, Fielding, fy others. — as a 
goddess. Behn. — as a cherubin. Centlivre, James Wild. — as 
Venus. /. Mottley. — as Adonis. Foote's Comic Theatre. — as 
Hercules ere his first labour. Byron. — as a peach-tree in blos- 
som. T. Morton. 

HANG the head, as flowers with frost, or grass beat down with 
storms. Shakespear. — like bending lilies overcharged with 
rain. Duke. — like a white poppy sinking on the plain, whose 
heavy head is overcharged with rain. Dryden. My virgin head 
hung like the poppy charged with too much moisture. Play, 
Codrus. — as full-blown poppies overcharged with rain decline 
the head. Pope. — with head declined like a fair flower sur- 
charged with dew she weeps. Milton. — as with ungentle 
showers the rose o'ercharged with wet declines her head. C. 
Cotton. Hang thy head down like a violet full of the morning 
dew. Beaumont ty Fletcher. Hang down their heads like full- 
eared corn. Suckling. — like a columbine. Marston. — like a 
lily. /. Crown, in Dryden's Miscellany. — Like a drooping 
lily hung his head. P. Pindar. She like a lilly nipped by 
winter's frost hangs down her lovely head. Play, The Spaniards. 
So a fine tulip when o'ercharg'd with rain, melts and dissolves, 
not able to sustain the weight of falling showers, hangs down 
its head. Play, Alarbas. Hang like flax on a distaff. Shake- 
spear. Hang together like a swarm of bees. The. Liberal. 
Like a drowning wretch will I hang upon you. Play, Coffee- 
house. Hang heavy o'er him like a gathered cloud. /. Reed. 
Grief on her lovely aspect hangs like a cloud upon the morn- 
ing's brow, and shines with lustre borrowed from her beauties. 
Theobald. 

HAPPILY as the bees that hive their sweets. Cornwall. 

HAPPY as a god. A. Hill. — as the blest above. Lansdonme. — 
as the blest in Paradise. Play, The Robbers. — as angels. Farce, 



H A R 

Who fares best. — as Heaven's angels. Sylvester. — as a king. 
Play, Guy Earl of Warwick; Gay, fy others. — as a queen. 
Lansdowne. — as a prince. Play, The Mistakes ; M. P. Andrews, 
fy others. — as a bird. Wordsworth. — as birds in their bowers. 
Ibid. Happy and faithful as two turtle doves. Mrs. Cowley. 
— as the day is long. Garrick, Murphy, 8$ others. — as a lawyer 
in Term time, or a physician in November. T. Holcroft. She 
seemed as happy as a wave that dances on the sea. W. Words- 
worth. 
HARD as a stone. Chaucer, Lidgate, fy others. — as the rocky 
stone. Poole's Parnassus. — as a piece of the nether mill-stone. 
Sacred Script. Hard and cold as stone. Poems, Forest of Va- 
rieties. — as marble. Sylvester, Duchess of Newcastle, fy others. 
Harder than Egyptian marble. Chapman. Hard as marble 
rocks. J.Taylor. Harder than a rock. Sacred Script., Shake- 
spear, fy others. — than rocky hills. Spenser. Hard as stony 
rocks. Glapthorne. — as the Scythian rock. Poole's Parnassus. 
Their breasts are harder than the Scythian rocks. E. Heywood. 
Hard as an adamant. Sacred Script., Bancroft, ty others. — as 
rocks of adamant. Marmion, Habington, fy others. Hearts 
more hard than adamantine rocks. J. Taylor. Hard as a dia- 
mond. Chaucer. Heart, hardened as the diamond. W. Pain- 
ter's Palace of Pleasure. Hard as flint. Sacred Script., A. Bar- 
clay, fy others. — as fire-engendering flint. Poole's Parnassus. 
More hard than Idumean flints on sun-burnt plains. A. PHIL 
— than flint, or marble stone. A. Barclay. — than flint, or dia- 
mond. W. Painter's Palace of Pleasure. — than marble, flint, 
or diamonds. Poetical Calendar. Hard and smooth as glass. 
T. Moore. — as steel. Lidgate, Barclay, 8$ others. Harder 
than steel, or adamant. G. Peele. — as iron. Sandys, Fountain, 
fy others. — as iron, or steel. Marlowe. — as solid brass. Poole's 
Parnassus. Harder than oak. G. Sandys. Hard as the palm 
of ploughman. Shakespear. Hard and unfeeling as a tyrant's 
heart. Play,TheRevolution. — as the heart of unrelenting tyrants. 
Poole's Parnassus. Hard (difficult) as for a camel to thread 
the postern of a needle's eye. Shakespear. — as to paint echo to 



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the sight. Swift. — as the Gordian knot. Shakespear. — as to tell 
the sands, or count the stars. Spenser. — as to count the sands 
in Euphrates. Sylvester. — as to count the waves. Ibid. As 
hard a task, as with a veil to cover the sun's beams. Mas- 
singer. Harder than to prop a tower with a deceiving reed. 
Ibid. — than to prop a falling tower. A. Hill. 

HARDY as a lion. Chaucer, Lidgate, ty others. — as the Nemean 
lion's nerve. Shakespear. 

HARMLESS as doves. Sacred Script., Otway, fy others. — as the 
turtle. A. Philips. — as the turtle of the woods. Otway. — as 
lambs. Watts. — harmless and innocent as sporting lamb. J. 
Smith. — as a sheep. Herrick. — as a kid. Play, Fickle Shep- 
herdess. — as the smile of infancy. W. Hawkins. — as a child. 
J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as an infant's play. W. Cow- 
per. — as pilgrims' kisses on the shrines of virgin martyrs. Cum- 
berland. — flame, as harmless as a lambent fire. Dryden. Harm- 
less and without effect, as is the echo of a cannon's crack dis- 
charged against the battlements of heaven. Play, King John. 
Harmless as the silent dead. Preston's App. Rhodius. 

HARMONIOUS as the spheres. /. Taylor, E. Young, $ others. 
— as planets move. J. Adams. Music, more harmonious than 
the spheres yield in their heavenly motions. Massinger. Voice, 
harmonious as celestial music. T. Maurice. Accents, more har- 
monious than the lark's when she sings hymns to harvest. Glap- 
thorne. Voice, more harmonious than the lark, whose tuneful 
notes awake the cheerful spring. W. R. Chetwood. Harmo- 
nious as when the moraine; stars together sang 1 , and all the sons 
of God shouted for joy. W. Thompson. — as the voice of angels 
singing before the Eternal Majesty. Sp>enser. He who is a 
stranger to the feelings of a parent, may take delight in the 
mellifluous notes of a flute, or in the more sonorous viol ; but 
to the parent's ear these are less harmonious than the simple 
music of an infant's prattle. Specimens of Hindoo Literature, by 
N. E, Kindersley. 

HARMONIZE. See ! o'er the harp her beauteous form she bends. 



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while as she sweeps the chords, their melody in richness har- 
monizes with her face. Author of the Times, a Poem. 

HARSH as a grating wheel. Play, New trick to cheat the Devil. 
The voice of ravens in the dead of night conveys not harsher 
notes into mine ears. W. Cartwright. Harsh as the raven's 
note. Theobald. Sound harsher in my ears than Scylla's dogs 
unto the frighted seaman. Play, Muleasses the Turk. Sound 
harsh and fatal as the mandrake's groan. L. Theobald. 

HASTE as bees to flowers. Sylvester. — as a generous unfleshed 
hound, that hears from far the hunter's horn and cheerful cry. 
Dryden. — as they would fly death. Poole's Parnassus. 

HASTY as fire. Shakespear. Hasty and rash as fire. L. Theo- 
bald. 

HATE him, as I do hell's pains. Shakespear. — as I would a 
cockatrice. Play, Lord Cromwell. Hate thee like a serpent's 
hissing. Play, Cupid's Whirligig. 

HATEFUL to my soul, as sin unto the saints. Corye. — as hell. 
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, J. Philips, and others. To my sight 
you are as hateful grown, as hell's severest tortures to my 
thoughts. Play, Forgery. Hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth. 
Shakespear. More hateful than contempt. Mrs. Cowley. Hate- 
ful as the name of slave. P. Francis. — as the grave. Pope. — 
as the reek of a lime-kiln. Shakespear. 

HAUNT him like a sprite. PasquiVs Nightcap. Haunt him 
like a phantom. Sir W. Scott. Haunt me like a passion. W. 
Wordsworth. 

HAZARDOUS. As hazardous for a moderate understanding to 
usurp the prerogatives of genius, as for a common form to 
play over the airs of uncontested beauty. Dr. Johnson. 

HEALING as balm. Jephson. — as the drops of Gilead balm. 
W. Thompson. 

HEALTHFUL as the blood of grapes to age. Sir W. Davenant. 

HEALTHY as the month of May. R. Estcourt. 

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HEARTLESS, helpless, wild, as flocks of timid sheep, or driven 
deer. M. Bruce. 

HEAVE like the sea. Montgomery.— like a sea in restless mo- 
tion. The Liberal. — like ridgy waves. Ossian. 

HEAVENLY as a seraph's note. Dodsley's Collection. 

HEAVY as lead. Lidgate, Shakespear, fy others. Heavy and 
dull as lead. Marlowe. Heavier than the sand of the sea. Sa- 
cred Script. — than Atlas' burthen. Lacy. A weight as heavy 
as the world on Atlas' shoulders. Duchess of Newcastle. My 
revenge, as heavy as Jove's wrath wrapped in a thunderbolt, 
is falling on him. /. Shirley. Make my heart heavy as a stone. 
Lidgate. 

HEEDLESS as the wind. Poetical Calendar. 

HERD like wounded deer in company. Dryden. 

HIDEOUS as despair. E. Young. 

HIGH as thought can soar. Dodsley's Collection. — as the head 
of fame. Congreve. — as heaven. Marlowe, Shakespear, 8$ others. 
Higher than the heavens. Sacred Script. — than heaven from 
hell. Sylvester. High as the heavens are raised above the 
ground we tread. Watts. — as Phoebus shineth in his sphere. 
Lidgate. — as the spheres. Congreve. — as the skies. Sir W. 
Davenant. More high than stars. Sir P. Sidney. — as Luna. 
J. Taylor. — as the clouds. Marlowe, J. C-Keeffe, 8$ others. 
— as Olympus. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, Dryden, ty others. — 
high as Olympus' cloud-dividing top. Rawlins. — as huge 
Olympus' top. C. Hopkins. — as Atlas. Banks. High above 
these, as Atlas to a mole-hill. Ibid. — as the Alpine hills. Play, 
Timoleon.- — as a monumental pyramid. Settle, Powell. — as a 
steeple. Beaumont ty Fletcher. — as a May-pole. Duchess of 
Newcastle. — as cedars. R. Greene. High as I could pitch my 
lance. Shakespear. 

HISS like snakes. Broome. 

HOARSE as the noise of many waters. Sacred Script. 



HOT 

HOLLOW as a vault. Faulkland. 

HOLY as religion. R. Shiel. — as the thoughts of dying saints, 
when angels hover o'er them. Cumberland. A flame as holy 
as that which burns in pious bosoms. Hodson. Holy as her- 
mit's vesper strain. Sir W. Scott. — as altars' incense. Glap- 
thorne. 

HONEST as truth itself. N. Rowe. — as the light. Shenstone. — 
as the skin between his brows. Shakespear, W. Cartwright. 

HONORED like a god. A. Brewer, Pope. 

HORRIBLE as hell. Spenser, Davenant, fy others. — as death. 
TV. Hemings, J. Stagg. — as murderers. TV. Thompson. 

HORRID as the gates of hell. T. Heywood. — as the mandrake's 
groan. Shakespear. — as the groan of a famished tiger leaping 
on his prey. Montgomery. — as the hiss of dragons. N. Lee. — 
as a murderer's dreams. Johnson. — as Mars. Pope. Black and 
horrid as all the wars the elements when ruffled into storms, 
could e'er present. Play, Courtenay Earl of Devonshire. 

HOT as fire. Gower, Lidgate, fy others. — as hell. Fanshaw, Cow- 
ley, fy others. — as Etna. Spenser, J. Shirley. — as flaming Etna. 
Durfey. Fire, hotter than that of Etna. C. Hopkins. Hot 
as the current of melted metals that flows from the entrails of 
burning mountains. Ravenscroft. — as flames of burning sul- 
phur. /. Ford. Hotter than Lucifer in all his flames. N. Lee. 
Hot as lightning. Glapthorne. Hotter than the lightning's fire. 
P. Pindar. Hot as thunder. Jonson. — as the summer. Dray- 
ton. — as the summer sun. A. Hill. — as suns above the line. /. 
Smith. — as the torrid zone. Poole's Parnassus. — as ripe noon. 
A. Cowley. Hotter than the dog-days. /. Corye. Hot as an 
oven. Sacred Script. — as a furnace. Farquhar, J. P. Kemble. 
— as Perillus' bull. Poole's Parnassus. — as coals, when kindled 
through. Duchess of Newcastle. — as molten lead. Shakespear. 
— as molten gold. Otway. — as liquid brass. TV. Taverner. 
Hotter than melting flint, or fluid glass. Blackmore. Hot as 
gunpowder. Shakespear. — as Jove. Pomfret. — as zeal. Quarles. 
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— as a burning fever. Poole's Parnassus. — as any pepper. Sir 
W. Davenant. — as a peppercorn. A. Maclaren. — as peppered 
brandy. Garth. — as a toast. R. Bernard. 

HOVER like bees o'er flowers. Lisle. 

HOWL like wolves in the wood. George Thornley. — like the mid- 
night wolf amidst the deserts. N. Rowe. — like a northern tem- 
pest. Murphy. 

HUGE as high Olympus. Shakespear. — as Leviathan. E. Young. 

HUMANE as mercy. Mrs. S. Gunning. 

HUMBLE as the child that meek and silent sinks to rest. 
Merrick. — as the conquered. Sewell. They come as humbly 
as they used to creep to holy altars. Shakespear. Humble as 
a cheater before a magistrate. Green's Tu quoque. — as the 
lowliest shrub that bends to Heaven's least breath. Jonson's 
Sad Shepherd. — as oziers bending to the wind. Congreve. — as 
the earth. Jonson. — as a lamb. Barclay. — as a spaniel. Play, 
The Blunderer ; O'Keeffe. 

HUMMING like a swarm of bees. Dryden. 

HUMOROUS as winter. Shakespear. — as nature. Sir W. Scott. 
— as April. Jonson. — as the wind. Dryden, Bevil Higgons. — 
as quicksilver. Jonson. 

HUNGRY as the sea. Shakespear. — as a hawk. /. Shirley, 
E. Ward, Sf others. — as a hound. Robert Herrysone, P. Pindar. 

HUNTED like a beast of prey. Dryden. — like hares. Fielding. 

HURL thee down, as Jove did giants from the skies. C. Hopkins. 

HUSHED as death. Shakespear, Durfey, fy others. — as the grave. 
J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. All is hush as the lone 
silence of the quiet grave. Play, Herminius fy Espasia, by Hart. 
— as night. W. Gilbank. — as midnight. Shakespear. Play, 
Traitor to himself. Hushed and silent as the mid of night. 
W. Browne. Hushed as midnight silence. Dryden. Hushed 
and silent as the lonely churchyard at the midnight hour. 
A. Cherry. Hushed as the foot of night. R. Blair. — as dead 



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calms. N. Lee. All is hush'd as nature were retir'd, and the 
perpetual motion standing still. Otway. Hushed as the falling 
dews, whose noiseless showers impearl the folded leaves of 
evening flowers. Congreve. — like waters in a calm. Durfey. 
— as the sea becalmed. C. Hopkins. — as infant winds in secret 
caverns locked. Play, Neglected Virtue. — as the cradle babe, 
when chidden by its angry parent to a slumber. C. Cibber. 
— as the babe upon its mother's breast. Byron. Hush it, as a 
nurse her infant's cry. Sir W. Scott. Hushed like a sleeping 
serpent underneath a bed of flowers. Pix. 



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IDLE. More idle than a madman's dream. Dekker. 

JEALOUS as usurpers. /. Carlile. — as a turnkey. Beaumont fy 
Fletcher. 

JEST like a licensed fool. Donne. 

IGNORANT as dirt. Shakespear. 

ILLUMINE the soul by the light of contentment, as the world 
is irradiated by the sun. S. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Li- 
terature. 

ILLUSIVE as the dreams of morn. Jane West. 

ILLUSTRIOUS as the morn. Blackmore. More illustrious and 
clear than silver Venus in the evening sky. Joseph Beaumont. 

IMMACULATE as a sheet of white paper. Foote. 

IMMEASURABLE as the winds. Play, Abdication of Ferdinand. 

IMMORTAL as the soul. Play, Ungrateful Favorite ; J. Trapp, 
fy others. 

IMMOVEABLE as fate. Play, Game of Chess; Glover. — as 
faith. Glapthorne. — as a steadfast rock. Translation of Pastor 
Fido. Like the deaf rock he stands immoveable. Gay. Im- 
moveable as mountains. /. Montgomery. 



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IMMUTABLE as fate. Dryderis Miscellany. — as the laws of 

nature. Burke. 
IMPARTIAL as truth. South. 
IMPASSIVE as marble. The Liberal. 
IMPATIENT as desire. Southern. — as an eagle in a grate. Dr. 

Johnson. — as the raging sea. Behn. — as the wind. C. Shadwell. 

The unbroken colt is not more impatient of his rider's weight. 

M. Bladen. Impatient as a runner for the prize. Wandesford. 

IMPENETRABLE as rocks of adamant. G. Powell. My secret 
shall henceforth be as impenetrable as the philosopher's stone. 
Chapter of Accidents , by Lee. 

IMPERFECT as discourses in a dream. Lansdowne. 

IMPERVIOUS as a rock of adamant. Dr. Johnson. 

IMPETUOUS as the wind. Dryden, Lisle.— as the lightning. 
J. Dennis. — as the storms. J. Beattie. Impetuous as a storm 
he rushed. A. Hill. In arms he rushes dreadful to the war, 
impetuous, rapid as contending winds. C. Johnson. Impe- 
tuous as descending floods. Prior. — as a torrent rushing down 
a precipice. Goring. — as a tigress new with young. Garth. 

IMPLACABLE as storms. C. Cibber. — as fate. Poem, Tyranny 
the worst Taxation. 

IMPOSSIBLE as that any thing that is absurd or false, can by 
genuine and just consequence, issue from what is true. South. 
— as that a false proposition should issue from a true. Ibid. 
— as to add degrees to infinity, new measures to immensity, 
and further improvements to a boundless, absolute, and unim- 
proveable perfection. Ibid. — as for him to see, who wants eyes. 
Ibid. — as for a man to live, and not to breathe. Ibid. — as for 
a sick man to be at ease. Tillotson. — as that fire should cool. 
South. — as to kindle fire with snow. Shakespear. — as that 
Stygian darkness should blend with light, frost with fire, or 
day with night. Quarles. — as to confine in crystal gaols the 
sun's resplendent beams. Sir W.Davenant. — as to reach down 
a star. Ibid. — as to catch the wind in a net thatbloweth in the 



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air. Lilly. — as to cast a drop of water in the breaking gulf, 
and take unmingled thence, that drop again, without adding or 
diminishing. Shakespear. — as to silence an echo by the strength 
of voice. E. Young. — as to reconcile the God of Truth and 
the Father of Lies. Tillotson. — as for Heaven to hold com- 
munion with Hell. W. Thompson. — as youth in health to dote 
upon a grief. Middleton. — as to cure a disease by an invective. 
South. Impossible and contradictious, as for a man to be 
envious and innocent too. Ibid. 

Impossible ! thou might'st as well attempt 

With thy weak arm to grasp Jove's thunderbolt ; 

With thy impotent voice stand on the beach, 

And bid the roaring tide, storm-lash'd, recede 

And sleep in quiet — thou might'st as well 

Think with thy breath to blow out night's bright lamp, 

And leave its Eastern worshippers in darkness, 

Or with thy hand the fulgent star eclipse 

That blazes on the noon- tide brow of day, — 

As think to quench this bosom's deathless flame. 

Play, Gonzanga. 

IMPROBABLE, as that the lioness should starve to spare her 
prey. Lansdowne. 

IMPUDENT as the basilisk, who stares in the face of man until 

he kill him with his eyes. Sir W. Davenant. 
INACTIVE as the foot of a dull rock. W. Thompson. 
INCONSISTENT as truth and falsehood. Farquhar. 

INCONSTANT as the moon. Dryden, Cibber, # others.— as the 
wind. Shakespear, T. Heywood, fy others. — as the changing 
wind. Hoole's Ariosto. — as the passing wind. Smollett. — as 
island winds. Belin. More inconstant than light whirlwinds. 
Glapthorne. — than autumn's blasts. T. Kyd. — than the air. 
Lower. Not more inconstant is the breath of air that blows 
one moment, and the next is calm. John Tracy. Inconstant 
as the summer gales that kiss the fragrant bosom of the rose. 
Mary Robinson. More inconstant than the sea. Jasper Hey- 



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wood, Jonson, fy others. Inconstant as waves. Smollett. More 
inconstant than the giddy wave. Poole's Parnassus. Incon- 
stant as the seas and winds. Behn. — as the rising winds, or 
flowing seas. Mrs. Manley. — as April. C. Johnson. — as the 
flying showers of rain in April. Glapthorne. — as the shadows 
we survey. S. Boyse. 

INCREASE like a small torrent fed with evening showers. 
Akenside. — like a flood in a narrow vale. Ossian. The noise 
increases as the billows roar, when rolling from afar they threat 
the shore. Dryden. 

INDUSTRIOUS as the ant. T. Killigrew. 

INEXORABLE as the grave. G. Powell. — as seas to the prayers 
of mariners. Glapthorne. — like consuming fire. Play, Costly 
Whore. 

INFECTIOUS as the plague. F. Manning, in his Generous Choice. 
Fear is an infectious sin, it catches like the plague. C. Johnson. 
Infecting like a pestilential air. Philip Frowde. 

INFERIOR as a weak starlight to the mid-day sun. R. Brome. 

INFINITE as space. SoameJenyns. — as boundless space. Byron. 

INFLEXIBLE as death. Play, Abdication of Ferdinand. — like 
hardened steel. Ajax, in Greek Tragic Theatre. — as a rock. 
James Kenney. 

INGENIOUS as want. Gildon. 

INGRATITUDE — like autumn's treacherous blast, that blows 
and gives the death-wound to the flower, that gave its breeze 
the fragrant power. The Cossack, by Robert Ely. 

INHOSPITABLE as the quicksands. Marmion. 

INIMICAL, as dogs to pigs. P. Pindar. 

INNOCENT as truth. Plays, Sir John Oldcastle; Bonduca: fy 
others. — as the unstained soul of truth. Corye. — as grace itself. 
Shakespear. — as new-born virtue. R. Davenport. — as angels. 
Durfey, R. Estcourt,fy others. — as infant angels. Pix. — as chaste 
Diana. M. Bladen. — as vestals. Play, Pcetus fy Arria. Inno- 



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cent and chaste as purest vestals. Theobald. Innocent and spot- 
less as a vestal. E. Morris. Innocent as infancy. Farquhar. 
as the child unborn. Sedley ; Play, Folly of Priestcraft, fy 
others. — as the babe unborn. T. Holcroft, C. Dibdin. The 
new-born babe is not more innocent. G. E. Howard, D. Terry. 
Innocent as harmless infants are. C. Saunders. Thoughts, in- 
nocent as infant's. Sir R. Howard. Innocent as day. Duchess of 
Newcastle. — as is the light. Play, Crafty Cromwell. — as purest 
air. Ibid. Thy heart is free, thy breast still innocent as cry- 
stal streams unsullied by the blast of ruffling winds and the 
loud tempest's rage. Goring. Innocent as lambs. Barclay, 
Yarrington, fy others. Innocent and tame as a lamb. Somervile. 
The tender lamb that never nipped the grass is not more in- 
nocent. Home. Innocent as doves. Sacred Script., Farquhar, 
fy others. — as the sucking lamb, or harmless dove. Shakespear. 
— as flowers. Sir W. Davenant. — as buds that sprout in May. 
Tatham. — as flowers that yield their smiles unto the distant 
sun. E. Howard. — as is the new-fallen snow. /. Shirley. — as 
water-gruel. Murphy. — as chicken-broth. Stevenson. 

INNOCUOUS as the firstling of a flock. TV. Wordsworth. 

INNUMERABLE as the stars of night, or stars of morning 
(dew-drops), which the sun impearls on every leaf and every 
flower. Milton. — as the sand which is by the sea-shore. Sacred 
Script. 

INSATIABLE as death. Sacred Script. — as fate. Somervile. — 
as the grave. Marston, South, ty others. Insatiate as the 
grave. Lilly, Beaumont fy Fletcher, 8$ others. More insatiable 
and devouring than fire. Duchess of Newcastle. Insatiable as 
covetousness. South. 

INSENSATE as the brutes that rove the extended wild. /. 
Merrick. 

INSENSIBLE as rock. /. Reed. Surprise insensibly as sleep. 
Pordage. 

INSEPARABLE like Juno's swans. Shakespear. 



INS 

INSOLENT as power when put in vulgar hands. Dryden. 

INTANGLE thyself in thy own work like a silkworm. /. 

Webster. 
INTRICATE as are the windings of a labyrinth. Play, Valiant 

Welshman. More intricate than a lybyrinth. T. Heywood. 
INVENTIVE as Archimedes. Duchess of Newcastle. 
INVIOLABLE as recorded oaths. Jephson. 
INVISIBLE as darkness to the eye. M. Bruce. — as air to mor- 
tal eyes. Dryden. — as Harmony who springs waked by young 
Zephyrs from Eolian strings. Hayley. — as the winds. Play, 
Abdication of Ferdinand. 
JOCUND as sprightly May. Rawlins. — as a vernal morn. R. 
Merry. — as the effulgent morn. Universal Magazine. — as 
huntsmen at their sunrise meeting. C. Cibber. — as the soar- 
ing lark. D. Deacon. 
JOVIAL as cup and can. Burhhead. 

JOYFUL as saints forgiven when they die. Sir W. Davenant. — 
as captive set at liberty. Sir W. Scott. — as lovers when their 
nuptials are nigh. Sir W. Davenant. No mother that has 
mourned her long-lost infant rejoices half so much to find her 
darling, or views the lovely babe with half the fondness I look 
on thee. C. Hopkins. Joyful as when a trembling wretch 
wakes from a frightful dream, and views the day. C. Bech- 
ingham. 
JOYOUS as morning. W. Wordsworth. 
IRRECONCILEABLE as antipathy. South. 
IRRESISTIBLE as the sun's rays in its meridian glory. W. 

Davies. 
IRREVOCABLE as the strict law of the Medes and Persians. 

R. Baron. 
JUMP like a grasshopper. Play, Generous Artifice. 
JUST as heaven. Massinger, Hayley. — as honour. Mallet. — as 
the scales of heaven that weigh the seasons. Dryden. — as 
Aristides. Thomson.— as Minos. Smith. 



KIN 



K. 






JtvEEN as scorn. Savage. — as the lightning. Somervile. — as 
Jove's lightning winged athwart the skies. Broome. Keener 
than the lightning's flash. J. Hervey. Keen as blighting 
winds. E. Ward. — as meagre harpies for their food. Garth. 
Appetite, keen as the greedy hawk's that is ready just to seize 
his longed-for prey. E. Filmer. Appetite, keen as a wolf. 
L. Macnally. Keen as a razor. /. Davies' Scourge of Folly, 
Gay, fy others. — as is the razor's edge. Shakespear. — as the 
needle to inflict a wound. Poetical Calendar. Look as keen 
as vinegar. A. Brewer. 

KILL like mandrake's shrieks. Gildon. Kill the wholesome 
blossom like a mildew. F. North. Killing as the plague. 
Massinger, W. Sampson. — as frost to flowers. Milton. — as the 
canker to the rose. Ibid. — as a northern blast. Tate. Eyes, 
more killing than the basilisk's. Play, Courtenay Earl of De- 
vonshire. 

KIND as compassion. Mallet. — as mercy. W. Thompson. — as 
goodness. Gildon. — as the charities of dying saints. G. Sewell. 
as angels. N. Cotton. — as interceding angels. Banks. — as will- 
ing saints. Sir W. Davenant. Not Heaven is more to dying 
martyrs kind. Dryden. Kind as lovers. Sir W. Davenant. 
— as parting lovers' tears. Otway. — as love. R. Shiel. — as the 
life of love. Play, Jack Drums Entertainment. — as the sun's 
blest influence. A. Cowley. — as the sun to the new married 
spring. Dekker. — as the spring to the earth. Ibid. — as foster- 
ing breezes. Shenstone. Kind and refreshing as the spicy 
gale. R. Barf or d. — as clouds to earth. TV. Duke of Newcastle. 
Kind and gentle as the dew of heaven. Cumberland. — as kings 
upon their coronation day. Dryden. — as the turtle. Gay. — as 
a dove. D. Terry. Kinder than billing turtles. A. Hill. 



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KIN 

KINDLE like a burning coal. Dryden, S. Johnson. — like fires 
provoked by wind. Lansdowne. Kindle and burn like dry- 
wood. W. Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 

KISS softer than a southern wind. Centlivre. 



JLABOUR like the restless bee. Earl of Sterline. — like the 
ocean after storm. W. L. Bowles. — like a collier's horse. B. 
Barnes. 

LAME as Vulcan. Jonson. — as a cripple. A. Cowley. 

LAMENT — Like the nightingale whose plaintive song bewails 
her ravished brood, here will I still lament my father's wrongs, 
and teach the echo to repeat my moan. Electra, in Greek Tra- 
gic Theatre. 

LANGUID as a yawn. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. 

LANGUISH as a gathered flower. Spenser. — like a withering 
flower. Otway. — like a drooping flower crushed by the weight 
of some relentless shower. Garth. Languish in affliction like 
flowers that droop and hang their pining heads beneath the 
rigour of relentless skies. Play, Zenobia. — like a flowerless 
plant that droops beneath the frown of an eclipse. Play, Pro- 
phetess. 

LANK as unthrift's purse. Donne. 

LASTING as God's love. Pomfret.—as the light of the New 
Jerusalem. /. Hervey. — as eternity. Ibid. — as the frame of 
universal nature. Lillo. 

LATE. Too late, like a pardon after execution. Shakespear. 
Too late, like sunbeams on the blasted blossoms. Suckling. 

LAUGH like an hyena. Shakespear. 

LAVISH as the spring. Shenstone. 

LAWLESS as the sea, or wind. Waller, F. Beaumont. — as the 



LIG 

wind. Mr. Godolphin, in Dry den's Miscellany. Lawless and 
wild as the rude winds that lash the sea to madness. L. The- 
obald. 

LEAN as a skeleton. T. Shadwell. — as a rake. Chaucer, Hey- 
vey, fy others. — Lean and meagre as a rake. Spenser. Lean 
as a lath. T. Heywood. — as a gridiron. P. Hoare. — as Lent. 
J. Shirley. — as famine. H. Ward. Leaner than death. Beau- 
mont fy Fletcher, R. Bronte. — than the new moon. Dekker. 

LEAP as a hart. Sacred Script. — like wanton kids in pleasant 
spring. Spenser. Leaping like a giddy kid. Sir P. Sidney. 
Leap like a frog. Liberal. 

LEPROUS as sin itself. Dekker. 

LEVEL as the seas becalmed. C. Gibber. — as the sleeping sea. 
Southey. 

LIBERAL as heaven. Gay, Southey. — as the abundant hand of 
Heaven. W. Pater son. — as spring. Scott of Amwell. — as the 
sun. Chapman. — as the sun that shines on all. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. — as the light of day. W. Cowper. — as the air. Shake- 
spear, Cockain. — as the vagrant air. Churchill. — as the sea. 
Play, Jeronimo. 

LIFELESS as a corpse. Cumberland. — as a stone. /. Wilson, 
author of Isle of Palms. 

LIGHT as day. Duchess of Newcastle, Dodslefs Collection, fy 
others. — as noon. Sylvester. Light and active as the morn. 
W. Tasker. Light as the lightning glimpse they ran, they 
flew. Milton.— as air. Shakespear, Chapman, fy others. — as 
ether. Cumberland. — as morning air. R. 0. Fenwick. — as 
viewless air. Pope. — as fleeting air. Play, The Country Wed- 
ding. — as empty air. W. Thompson. — as a puff of empty air. 
Watts. — as embodied air. Milman. Light and warm as air 
and fire. B. Hoadly. — as wind. Barclay, Lilly, fy others. — as 
fleeting wind. Ramsay. — as the wind at which the tremulous 
aspen scarcely bends. Landon. Lighter than wind or air. 
Rawlins. Light as the breeze. Rogers. — as the breeze that 



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hails the infant morn. T. Gent. Light as flies the gale along 
the lily- silvered vale. Cawthom. Light and unbounded as the 
mountain gales. A. Hill. Thy lip a touch receives light as the 
zephyr's whispered kiss. Friendship s Offering. Heart, light as 
summer clouds, and as inconstant as the winds that bear them. 

A. Macdonald. Light and dissolving as the falling snow. John 
Tracy. Light as the foam upon the waters. W. Cowper. — as 
the foamy surf that the wind severs from the broken wave. 
Ibid. — as foam that plays the ocean waves among. Landon. 
Light and unstable as the crested foam which rides the dancing 
surge. W. Hodson. Light as the waterfall's spray. Landon. 
More light than floating billows. Fraunce. Light as a feather. 
Play, The London Prodigal; J. Heywood, fy others. — as the 
downy feather. J. Hervey. — as the feathered mote which the 
least breath of wind hurries away like a tempest. Ibid. — as 
the volatile atom which by the gentlest agitation of the air is 
wafted to and fro in perpetual agitation. Ibid. Lighter than 
down. C. Johnson, Dyer, fy others. Light as thistle-down. 
Mrs. Brooke. — as the down of thistles. C. Johnson. — as gos- 
samer, Moses Mendez, Preston, ty others. — as fur. Jonson. — 
as a bubble. Play, Country Girl. Lighter than children's bub- 
bles blown by winds. Dry den. — than frothy bubbles, or di- 
spersed smoke. Glapthorne. Light as a balloon. Farce, One 
and All. — as a bird. Poem, The Theriad. No bird so light as 
they. Pope. Light as the lark that carolled o'er his head. R. 
Bloomjield. — as a lark. Sir W. Scott. — as leaf of tree. Robert 
Herrysone. — as a falling leaf that springs away before the ze- 
phyr's wings. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as flying leaf. 
Ibid. Lighter than blossoms, or the fleeting air that sheds 
them. Dryden's Miscellany. Light as the scattered blossom 
of the heath that summer chases with her evening breath. Poem, 
Charlemagne, by Lucien Bonaparte, translated. Lighter than 
levity. Churchill. — than inconstant thought. Sir W. Davenant. 
— than a madman's dreams. A. Cowley. Light as the va- 
pours of a morning dream. Dryden. — as feathered Mercury. 

B. Hoadly. — as the angel shapes that bless an infant's dream. 



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T. Moore. — as a wood-nymph. Cornwall. Tread as light as 
dancing fairies step by night. E. Ward. Light as the fairy 
step at morn swift passing o'er the unbending corn. Mrs. 
Brooke. Her steps were light as though a winged angel trod 
over earth's flowers, and feared to brush away their delicate 
hues. H. H. Milman. Lighter than flame. R. Greene. Light 
as fire. T. Heywood. — as a grasshopper. Congreve. — as a fly. 
Play, Contention between Liberality 8$ Prodigality ; C. Shad- 
wall. — as the roe. Jephson.— -as the bounding roe. Potter's 
Eschylus. — as the sportive fawn. /. Dillon. Light are her 
sallies as the tripping fawn's forth-startled from the fern where 
she lay couched. W. Wordsworth. Light as the antelope I 
would tread the steeps. Dillon. — as cork. Herrick, Duke, 8? 
others. — as chaff. E. P. Knight, R. Lloyd. — as chaff that flies 
before the wind. Dryden. — as the summer's dust. E. Young. 
— as truth itself. W. Whitehead. Death creeps on him lightly 
as a shadow. Cumberland. Light as the shadows flitting o'er 
the plain. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. 

LIKE as cherry is to cherry. Shakespear. — as pilchards to her- 
rings. Ibid. — as rain to water. Ibid. — as two drops of water. 
Miller. Water to water nor milk to milk is not liker than 
he is to you. Play, Menechmus.—a.s like as eggs. /Shake- 
spear. Like as straw to straw. Gay. Like each other as 
are peas. Swift. — as star to star. A. Brewer. Narcissus to 
the thing for which he pined, was not more like. Poole's Par- 
nassus. 

LIMPID as water dropping from the clefts of mossy marble. 
Dyer. 

LITTLE as rainy drops which fluttering fly, borne by the winds 
along a low'ring sky. Eusden. 

LIVELY as the smiling day. A. Hill. Lively and gay as a 
summer's morn. W. R. Chetwood. — as tints of young Iris' 
bow. J. G. Cooper. Lively and alert as an owl at midnight. 
T. Holcroft. 

LIVID as lead. Byron. 



LO A 

LOATHE him as much as youth and beauty hate a sepulchre. 
Middleton fy Rowley. Loathe thee more than Heaven does 
hypocrites, or hell the just. Oldmixon. 

LOATHSOME as the briny sea appears to him who languishes 
with thirst for some known fountain. Akenside — as a toad. 
Shakespear. More loathsome to her eyes than a swoln toad. 
Play, Ungrateful Favorite. — than spotted adder or crawling 
toad. A. Macdonald. — than a leper. Randolph. Loathsome 
as a leprous skin. Play, How to choose a good Wife. A breath 
more loathsome than the stench of Nile. Play, Herod 8f An- 
tipater. Loathsome as impiety. Peaps. 

LOFTY as heaven's blue arch. W. Thompson. — as the pine. A. 
Pasquin. 

LONELY as a turtle that hath lost her mate. Chaucer. — as the 
traveller lost and benighted. S. Bamford. 

LONG as a tedious tale. Shakespear. — as the day to him who 
works for debt. Pope. — as the year's dull circle seems to run, 
when the brisk minor pants for twenty-one. Ibid. — as a May- 
pole. Play, Entertainment at Richmond. 

LOOK as dreadfully as death. Dry den. Detect him in a shame- 
ful action, and the eye of the discoverer, like that of the basilisk, 
shall look him dead. South. Dart poisonous flashes like the 
basilisk, and look him dead. Sir John Denham. O that I 
were a basilisk to look thee dead. H. Carey. Looks kill not, 
but they can destroy with fatal blight, the buds of joy. Poem, 
Margaret of Anjou. As the sensitive plant shrinks from the 
slightest touch, so does an unkind look cause the countenance 
of the dependent guest to fall. Specimens of Hindoo Literature, 
by N. E. Kindersley. So Clytia looked upon the sun till she 
turned Heliotrope. Poole's Parnassus. 

LOOSE as heaps of sand. Dryden. Loose and dangerous as the 
sand. C. Cibber. — as air. Marston. — as the winds. Behn, Bul- 
loch. — as the zone of negligence. Cawthorn. 

LOST as a billow in the unbounded main. E. Young, I die 



LOU" 



forgotten here, lost like a blossom which the wand'ring wind 
blows from the bosom of the spring to mix with summer's 
dust. Sir W. Davenant. 
LOUD as a storm. Durfey, Yatden, ty others. — as thunder. 
Chaucer, Shakespear, 8$ others. — as Sinai's thunder. Campbell. 
Louder he'll blow, and it shall speak more shrill than when 
from Sinai's hill, in thunder through the horrid reddening 
smoke, the Almighty spoke. Pomfret. Loud as the noisy- 
thunder. Watts. Louder than the breath of thunder. Banks. 
Loud as mighty thunder breaking from a cloud. Poems on 
State Affairs. Louder than thunder roaring from the clouds. 
Doyne's Tasso. Loud as thunder shot from the divided cloud. 
Poole's Parnassus. — as the deep-mouthed roar of thunder, 
when it bursts the riven cloud, and bellows through the ether. 
M. Bruce. Not louder roars the three-edged bolt of heaven, 
when formed by Vulcan, or when thrown by Jove. Poetical 
Calendar. Loud, as if like Bacchus born in thunder. Dry den. 
Loud and quick as thunder. Play, Spanish Gipsey. Loud as 
the burst of cannon rends the skies. Pope. Loud was his 
voice as sounds the rapid tide, which in strong currents tears 
the mountain's side. Poem, Fragments of Fingal. — as the sea. 
Duke. Voice, loud as ocean. E. Young. Louder than the 
deep in storms. Ibid. Loud as the roaring ocean in a storm. 
N. Rowe. — as the sound of many waters. M. Bruce. — as 
waves. Watts. — as a rushing stream when o'er the rugged 
precipice it roars, and foaming thunders on the rocks below. 
M. Bruce. — as the surges when the tempest blows, that dashed 
on broken rocks tumultuous roar. Pope. — as the wind. Ossian, 
Durfey, 8$ others. — as the winds that lash the raging seas. 
Cumberland. Loud and impetuous was their stormy breath, 
as blasts that menace mariners with death. Preston s A pp. 
Rhodius. Loud as the blast my frantic cries shall sound. M. 
Robinson. Loud as northern blasts that swell the deep. Dur- 
fey. — as the sound of the cherubim's wings. Sacred Script. — 
as a trumpet. Swift. — as the trump of heaven, whose sacred 
blast must unite mouldered earth, and wake the dead. Durfey* 

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LO V 

Speak as loud as Mars. Shakespear. Loud as the roar en- 
countering armies yield, when shouting millions shake the 
thundering field. Pope. — as Fame. Dryden, Mrs. Manley. 
Loud as Fame can speak, proclaim an universal joy. Southern. 
Not half so loud the bellowing deeps resound, 
When stormy winds disclose the dark profound ; 
Less loud the winds that from the Eolian hall 
Roar through the woods, and make whole forests fall ; 
Less loud the woods when flames in torrents pour, 
Catch the dry mountain, and its shades devour ; 
With such a rage the meeting hosts are driven, 
And such a clamour shakes the sounding heaven. Pope. 
Loud as gaunt lions bellowing shake the woods. Fawkes. — as 
the wolves on Orca's stormy steep, howl to the roarings of 
the Northern deep. Pope. Voice, louder than Stentor. Sir 
J. H. Moore. Louder than a bell. Swift. Loud as a parish 
bull. P. Pindar. — as a hog in a gate. Goldsmith. 

LOVE. I love thee more than the sunburnt earth loves soften- 
ing showers, more than new ransomed captives love the day, 
or dying martyrs breathing forth their souls, the acclamations 
of whole hosts of angels. Cumberland. I love you more than 
the ewe loves her lamb, the doe her fawn, or the dove her 
mate. L. Macnally. Loved her more than doves their mates, 
than ewes their lambs, than tender kids their fawning dams. 
Motteux. More loved by me than by the eye the light. T. 
Cooke. Loved as living breath. Spenser. 

LOVELY as benevolence. T. Chalmers. — as spotless honour. 
T. Scot. Lovelier than renown. H. More. — as Pandora, whom 
the gods endowed with all their gifts. Milton. — as Venus. E. 
Smith, Mrs. Manley, fy others. — as a seraph. Blachnore. — as 
an angel. J. Wild. — as a cherubim. Dimond. Lovelier far 
than Eve. Banks. More lovely far than Juno when she strove 
to look most lovely in the eyes of Jove. Hayley. Lovely as 
light. Dryderis Miscellany. — as the first created light. Ibid. 
as the sun-beam of heaven. Ossian. — as the first beam of the 



LO V 

sun. Ibid. — as the blush that brea ks the day. R. Davenpor t. — ^r 
as the sun's first ray when it breaks the clouds of an April 
day. Sir W. Scott. More lovely far than is the morning sun 
when first she opes her oriental gates. Play, Taming of a 
Shrew. More lovely than the pleasant sun himself, when he 
shines through the golden fleece of the celestial Ram. W. Joy- 
ner. More lovely than the sun's returning ray to Northern re- 
gions at the half-year's morn. /. G. Cooper. Lovely like the 
beam of the setting sun. Ossian. Lovely as the western sky 
to the 'rapt Persian worshipping the sun. /. Wilson, Author of 
Isle of Palms. Lovely as the morn. Robert Omen, H. Boyd, fy 
others. — as is the morning. R. Davenport. — as Aurora. Gay. 
Aurora on a May morning never looked so lovely. Holcroft. 
Lovely as the blushing morn. C. Hopkins, E. Young, 8$ others. 
— as the blush of morn. Bertram, by Sir E. Brydges. — like the 
gleaming dawnings of the morn when day first kindles. Faulk' 
land.- — as the morn that dawns in heaven. W. Richardson. — 
as the dawn. T. Noble. — as the dawn of day. Aurelia, a Poem. 
— as the breaking day. Dry den's Miscellany. — as the rising dawn 
when the new-born light salutes the joyful earth impurpling 
half the skies. Somervile. — as the beam of the morning. Ossian. 
— as the dawning east. C. Cotton. — as the beams that play 
about the east and lead the coming day. Dryden's Miscellany. 
Lovely as the morning beam, yet pure as the fountain that re- 
flects its ray. Morton. — as the blush that breaks the day . Da- yK~ 
venport. More lovely than the day which from the east in 
radiant beams appears. M. Coppinger. — than when Lucifer 
displays his beaming forehead through the gates of morn, to 
lead the train of Phoebus and the spring. Akenside. More 
lovely beams thy lucid eye to me, than all the lustrous orbs 
of night. C. Fox. Lovely as spring. Poem, Leonora to Tasso ; 
J. Wilson, Author of Isle of Palms. — as a young spring. Daven- 
port. — as the youthful spring when happy nature drest in ver- 
dure smiles. W. Thompson. — as the smiling infant spring. Field* 
ing. Lovelier than the spring in May. G. Colman. Lovely as 

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LOW 

May. M . Bruce, Pasquin. — as the day that opes the rosy morn 
of gentle May. W. Mavor. — as morn in May adorned with all 
the glories of the spring. N. Richards. Lovely to the view as 
flourishing May clad in the pride of spring. Play, New Trick to 
cheat the Devil. Lovely and gay as the enamelled valley, when 
blooming Nature first serenely smiled, and gave to every flower 
a double lustre. James Miller. Lovely and lonely as a single 
star. T. K. Hervey. — as Luna. R. Greene. Lovely in her 
tears, as when the morning's face is washed in dew. Sir W. 
Davenant. Not Flora's self more lovely smiles, when to the 
dawning year her opening bosom heavenly fragrance breathes. 
Somervile. No beauteous blossom of the fragrant spring, 
though the fair child of Nature newly born, can be so lovely, 
Otway. Lovely as the mountain flower, when the ruddy 
beams of the rising sun gleam on its dew-covered sides. Ossian. 
— cheek, lovely as the apple flower, or summer evening's glow. 
Southey. Lovely as a budding rose. Ibid. — as vernal roses. 
T. Penrose. Lovelier than the new-blown rose. Universal Ma- 
gazine. Tints, as lovely as the opening rose displays when 
kissed by sunbeams of the morn. James Bird. Lovely as the 
summer's bloom. H. Jones. — as dewy fragrance in the glow 
of eve. The Saviour, a Poem. — as Eden ere the fall of man. 
M. A. Browne. Voice more lovely than a seraph's hymn. 
R. Shiel. 

LOW as beggary. Rawlins. — as Erebus. T. Heywood. — as helL 
Play, Ccesar's Revenge ; Dryden, fy others. — as hell is from 
heaven. Shakespear. — as earth. Play, Sir John Oldcastle ; M. 
Pix, 8$ others. — as earth's foundation stone is from the top of 
Etna. Play, Damon 8$ Pythias. You have humbled my proud 
heart low as the earth. Carlell. — as the dust, Play, Zelmane. — 
as the centre. Play, Feigned Friendship. Stooped his anointed 
head as low as death. Shakespear. Low as obedience. A. 
Brewer. — as the shrub. Savage. 

LOWER like a storm. Pitt. 



MAD 

LUCID as air/ Shenstone. Lucid and lovely as the morning star. 
Bruce. Lucid like truth. A. Hill; Poem, Progress of Wit. 
A light more lucid than the golden ray, which in the east pro- 
claims approaching day. J. B. Surges. 

LUDICROUS as to see an old fellow aping the extravagancies 
of youth. Play, Laughable Lover. 

LULLING as falling water's hollow noise. Gay. — as the song of 
Indian bees. T. Moore. Lulled like the depths of ocean when 
at rest. Byron. 

LUMINOUS as a star. Ravenscroft. 

LUSCIOUS as the bee's nectareous dew. Pope. — as locusts. 
Shakespear. 

LUSTROUS as the orb of noon. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. 
LUSTY as the early day. Poole's Parnassus. — as the youthful 
morn. Ibid. — as the flower of youth. Ibid. 

LUXURIANT and unbounded as the sea. Thomson. 



M. 

lVlAD as the winds. C. Davenant ; Play, Fickle Shepherdess. — 
as the northern wind. Sir W. Davenant, C. Davenant. — as roll- 
ing tempests. Play, Female Wits. — as the sea. Godolphin, in 
Dryden's Miscellany ; J. Armstrong. — as the vexed sea. Shake- 
spear. — as the warring elements. T. Dibdin. — as the seas and 
wind, when both contend which is the mightier. Shakespear. 
— as the raging billows of the sea, the baited panther, or Ne- 
mean lion; or as the tiger in his search of prey when cruel ap- 
petite had whet his fury. Banks. Madder than hunted lions. 
Play, Fatal Discovery. Mad as a Bedlamite. C. Macklin. — 
as the priestess of the Delphic god. N. Rome. — as fire. Mar- 
lowe. — as to build on a hill of sand. R. Davenport. — as the 
vanquished bull when forced to yield his lovely mistress, and 
-as a mad dog. Shakespear. Mad 



forsake the field. Dry den. 



MA J 

as a March hare. J. Hey wood, Beaumont ty Fletcher, 8$ others. — 
as a Libyan wilderness by night, with all its lions up in chase 
or fight. /. Montgomery. 

MAJESTIC as a god. Pope, Mr. May's King Asa. — as Jove. 
Lansdowne. — as when Juno, throned above the deities by the 
side of Jove, lends her proud smile celestial, while her Lord 
showers heaven's bounties on the world below. Cornwall. 
Deep on his brow imprinted sorrow sat, majestic as a cloud 
upon the morn. G. E. Howard. Majestic as the sky's bright 
panoply. Universal Magazine. Mien, as majestic as the moon 
at full. Specimens of Hindoo Literature, by N. E. Kinder sley. 
Majestic as the storm that broods upon the mountain. M. R. 
Mitford. — as the forest oak. Poem, Margaret of Anjou. 

MALICIOUS as a witch, Play, The Ball. — as a monkey. Corye. 

MALLEABLE as the Ophir gold. Chapman. 

MANIFEST as light. H. Boyd. Appear as manifest as mid- 
day's sun. Play, Swetnam arraigned. 

MANTLE like a standing pond. Shakespear. 

MANY as the stars of the sky in multitude. Sacred Script. — as 
the stars that gild the sky. W. Wilkie. — as the sand which is 
by the sea-shore in multitude. Sacred Script. — like dancing 
atoms on a summer's day. Poole's Parnassus. Unnumbered 
motes that in the sun do play are not so many. Ibid. Many 
as in the sea are little water drops. Play, Dido. — as the flow- 
ers that paint the ground. W. Wilkie. — as the flowers that 
paint the April meadows. George Soane. 

MASSY as the earth. Play, Spanish Tragedy. 

MATURE. Affection from my breast sprung forth at once, 
mature as Pallas from the brain of Jove. Cumberland. 

MEAGRE as the skeleton of death. Durfey. 

MEEK as Patience. R. Shiel. Eyes, meek as gentle Mercy's 
at the throne of heaven. Earl of Carlisle. — as a saint. Pope. 
— as a cloistered saint. Play, Royal Cuckold. — as Moses. 



MEL 



W. Cowper. — as womanhood. Wordsworth. Meekly as a 
maiden. W. T. Moncrieff. Meek as doves. Sir W. Davenant, 
Pasquin, fy others. — as the turtle dove. R. Blair. — as the 
dove that draws the chariot of the Queen of Love. Fanshaw, 
Settle, — as lambs. Sylvester, Cumberland, ty others. Meekly 
as doves whose livers have no gall. Sir. W. Davenant. Meek 
as the violet. Pollok. — as parting day. B. Hoole. Meek as 
meek might be. Drayton. 

MELANCHOLY as day when sun sets. Faulkland. — as night. 
Play, Gondolier. — as dark night. Duchess of Newcastle. Look 
as melancholic as midnight. Jonson. Melancholy as a watch- 
light. Congreve, C. Shadwell. — as a discarded statesman. 
Mountfort. — as a poor servant out of place. Murphy. Look 
as melancholy as if there was a funeral going on in the house. 
Fielding. Melancholy as a turtle that has lost its mate. Play, 
Phillis at Court. — as an owl in the day time. A. Cowley. — as 
an owl at noon day. Play, Irishman in London. — as the drone 
of a Lincolnshire bagpipe. Shakespear, Behn. — as an unlaced 
drum. Centlivre. — as a fiddle wfth one string. T. Holcroft. — 
as a bass viol in a concert. Green's Tu quoque. — as a lover's 
lute. Shakespear. — as a lodge in a warren. Sir TV. Davenant. 
— as a cat. Lilly, Gay, fy others. — as a gib cat. Shakespear. 
as a hare. Ibid. — as a lugged bear. Ibid. — as an old lion. 
Ibid. — as a sick monkey. J. Leanerd. — as a moulting chicken. 
Cumberland. 

MELODIOUS as stringed harp swept by the winds in autumn. 
Cornwall. — as the nightingale first heard beneath Arabian 
heavens, wooing the rose. Ibid. — as the new mated thrush. 
Ibid. — as the bird that calls the morning as the last star goes 
down in the west, and out of sight is heard. Cornwall. Voice, 
melodious as revolving spheres attuned by touch angelic. J. 
B. 



MELT as morning dew beneath the eye of day. W . Hodson. — 
like the morning dew. G. Keate. Melted from my sight like a 
spring dew-drop. Mrs.Hemans. Melt away like a bubble. G. 



MER 

Keate. — like mist. Ossian. — like mist-wreaths in the sun. Sir 
W. Scott. — like snow. Marlowe, Byron, ty others. — like snow 
before the sun. Chaucer, Harington, fy others. Melting like 
snows before the spring-tide sun. Meilan. Melting as snow be- 
fore the mid-day sun. Sylvester. — like snow before the scorch- 
ing rays of Phoebus. M. Bladen. Melt, as hills of snow dis- 
solve and run. Watts, Melt like shrinking snow upon a south- 
ern bank. Earl of Carlisle. Melt away like the weak snow 
which some warm sun has found fallen out of season. TheLiberal. 
Melt away like ice before the sun. G. Sandys. Melt away like 
ice before the sun's dissolving ray. Poole's Parnassus. Melt 
away as the ice in the fair warm weather. Ecclesiasticus. Melt 
like ice. Dry den. — like ice in the sun. R. Wilkinson. — like 
frost before the sun. M. A. Browne. — like wax. Durfey, Pa- 
radise of Coquettes. — like wax before the fire. Sacred Script. — 
like wax before the scorching flame. Poole's Parnassus. — like 
wax before the sun. C. Middleton, in England's Parnassus. — 
like wax before the mid-day sun. Quarles. Melt away like a 
watch candle. Play, Christmas Ordinary. Melt like butter. 
Jonson. — like ointment. Sales Koran. Melting as the weather 
in a thaw. Jonson. Melting as babes. H. Brooke. Melting 
as a lover's prayer. Hughes. Melted as breath into the wind. 
Shakespear. Melt into gentler showers than April drops upon 
the infant flowers. Floriana, a pastoral Poem. — like chafed 
odours melt in sweets away. Dry den. Melting as the syren's 
song. A. Seward. 

MERCIFUL and kind as a forgiving God. Dryden. — as heaven. 
Rolt. 

The rose lipp'd cherubs round the throne of heav'n, 
Have not their bosoms more divinely warm 
"With melting mercy, than that tender breast. 

Fettiplace Sellers. 

MERCILESS as death. Hay ley. More merciless than the wild 
evening wolf. R. Davenport. 

MERRY as the morning lark. Play, Sir Giles Goosecap ; E. 



M IL 



Moore.~as the birds in spring. W. Wordsworth. Merry and 
gay as nature in the spring. Sir W. Davenant. — as merry as 
the day is long. Shakespear, Miller, fy others. Merry as good 
company, good wine, good welcome can make good people. 
Shakespear, and imitated by Otway fy Goldsmith. — as a king. 
G. Peele, B. Holyday, fy others.— as Democritus. Play, King 
Charles the First. — as a corporal upon pay day. Glapthorne. 
— as a pie. Play, Shoemakers Holiday ; J. Davies' Scourge of 
Folly. — as the popinjay. Chaucer, Drayton. — as crickets. 
Shakespear, J. Davies, fy others. — as a kitten. R. Burns. — as 
a riddle. C. Gibber. — as a marriage bell. Byron. — as cup and 
can. J. Davies. — as a morrice-dancer. E. Ward. 

MIGHTY as Phlegrean Jove. N. Rowe. Mightier than the 
sea. Donne. 

MILD as Mercy. W. Shirley, B. Hoole. — Countenance, mild as 
Mercy looking on Repentance' tear. Pollok. Mild as love. 
Mrs. Brooke. Mild and gentle as soft peace. Jane Wiseman. 
— as modest virtue. Durfey ; Play, Unequal Match. — as hea- 
venly seraphs. Blackmore. In manners as an angel mild. /. 
Stagg. Mild, gentle, affectionate as an angel. F. Reynolds. 
Mild as the angelic guardians of the blest. Jane West. Milder 
than the Queen of Love. Theobald. Soft and mild as mothers 
to their erring babes. A. Hill. Mild as babes, and tender as 
their mothers, Banks. — as infants newly rocked to sleep. Bevil 
Higgons. — as sighing saints. A. Hill. Milder than a captive 
saint. Sir W. Davenant. — as a maiden. Fraunce. — as the voice 
that calmed the abyss upon creation's day, and breathed the 
breath of life upon the void of Chaos. G. Townsend. — as orient 
day. W. Richardson. — as opening gleams of promised heaven. 
Pope. Mild and fair as the morning sun. Carew. — as the sun 
of morn in earliest spring. Universal Magazine. — as the even- 
ing sun. Ossian. — like the hour of the setting sun. Ibid. — as 
the departing sun. C. Churchill. — as evening suns when flowery- 
footed May leads on the jocund hours. W. Thompson. He 
smiles as mild as evening suns, and gilds him with his favour. 
Ibid. — as the summer sun's decaying light. Southey. — as the 



MIL 

summer's evening ray. TV. Heard, — as the summer's evening 
hour. Author of Poem Fair Isabel of Coiehele. — -as the gentlest 
season of the year. Fawkes. Milder than the spring. W. 
Thompson. — than the approach of spring. Ibid. Mild as 
blooming spring when budding flowers their fragrance bring. 
Lines by Author of Talieshis Poem. Mild are his looks 
like opening spring. Ramsay. Milder than a vernal sky. 
Cawthorn. Mild as the vernal hours that ope the tender al- 
mond's blushing flowers. A. Seward. — as the morn. Black- 
more, T. Gent, fy others. — as opening morn. Moses Mendez. — 
— as ambrosial morn. Lines by Author of Taliesirfs Poem. — 
as the soft breathings of a vernal morn. W.Richardson. — as 
April morn. R. Bloomfield. — as the opening morn of May. 
Shenstone. — as a May morning. T. Holcroft ; Play, Deaf fy 
Dumb.-- as the orient dawn of May. TV. Mason. — as the dove- 
eyed morn awakes the May. Fenton. Milder than the blush- 
ing dawn. Somervile. Mild as the dawn of Aurora. Poem, Sor- 
rows of Love. Mild as the fragrance of Aurora's dawn, when 
vernal showers bedew the lilied lawn. Ibid. Mild and sweet 
like the fair summer evening. E. Young. Mild as when Phcebus 
sheds his soft effulgence on autumnal eve. Charles Emily. — as 
May. Banks, Pope,fy others. — as evening. Poetical Calendar. — 
as evening skies. C. Shaw. Mild as streams the ethereal ra- 
diance from the brow of night's fair planet. TV. Hodson. — as the 
evening star whose shining ray, soft in the unruffled water seems 
to play. A. Seward. — as Hesper's rays. H. Vaughan. More 
mild and lovely than the star of night, when through the azure 
vault she glides in peace serene, and bids our cares and sorrows 
cease. Translation of Charlemagne, a Poem by L. Bonaparte. 
Mild as the beam of night. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. — as 
the softest beam of night. Play, Selim 8$ Zuleika. — as the star- 
beam on the silent wave. A. Seward. — as lambent glories that 
play around a sainted infant's head. Coleridge. — as the summer 
air. Cornwall. — as a summer's sky. J, Worsdale. — as the gales 
of May. J. Macgilvray. — as the breeze. Akenside. Milder 
than the mildest breeze that fans the bloom of spring. Pye. 



MO A 



Mild as April's dewy breeze. B. Hoole. Breezes, mild as 
love-inspiring May. Ibid. Mild as the soft breeze that fans 
the summer eve. Smollett. Milder than a summer's breeze. 
H More. Mild and temperate as the summer's breeze. H. 
Smithers. Milder than the western breeze, tempering the 
summer's heat, and whispering through the trees. Poetical 

Miscellany. Mild as a southern breeze. J. Mottley as the 

zephyr. Lovibond, Ashburnham, fy others. — as the western ze- 
phyr's balmy breath. Universal Magazine.— as Zephyrus' cool 
whispers be. W. Habington. — as zephyr's whispering gale. 
The Shamrock, or Hibernian Cresses, a collection of poems. — as 
when Zephyrus on Flora breathes. Milton. — as the pleasantest 
zephyr that sheds and receives gentle odours from violet beds. 
John G. Cooper. Milder than the vernal gale. Ogilvie. Mild 
and harmonious as the breath of May, when evening gales o'er 
beds of roses play. H. Jones. — as matin dew. T. Moore. — as 
the dews which vernal clouds distil. T. Hogg. — as the evening 
dew on earth descends. Universal Magazine. — as descend the 
evening's dewy stores. Poems, by Author of Alfred. — as the dew 
that cheers the drooping flowers. A. Seward. — as the vernal 
shower. R. Bloomfield. — as summer shower, that falls at even- 
ing's fragrant hour, and wakes to life the languid flower. Poem, 
Margaret of Anjou. — as the melodies at close of day, that 
heard remote along the vale decay. Beattie. — as a summer 
sea. Dodsley's Collection. — as happy lovers woo. /. Adams, 
in Dry den's Miscellany. — as a lamb. Sidney, Sylvester, fy others. 
— as the bleating lamb. The Cloud King. — as a dove. Durfey, 
J. Price. — as the peaceful dove. F. Reynolds. Mild and in- 
offensive as the dove. Miscellany of Poems by J. Husbands. 
Milder than Paphian doves. Poetical Calendar, Mr. Greville, 
Mild as sleep. Jacob. — as milk. TV. Churchey. 

MISCHIEVOUS as a monkey, T. Shadwell, Colman. — as an 
ape. T. Smollett. 

MOAN like a tender infant in its cradle, whose nurse has left it. 
Otway. 



MOD 

MODERN as the day. Play, Abdication of Ferdinand, 

MODEST as morn. A. Marvel. — as the opening morn. Jane 
West. — as the blushing morning. Duchess of Newcastle.— as 
morning, when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. Shake- 
spear. — as infant Nature in her bloom. Pix. — as justice. Play, 
Pericles. — as an angel. /. Leanerd. — as a nun. Poetical Ca- 
lendar, Stevenson. — as virgins are. Poetical Recreations. — as 
a vestal virgin's eye. Lilly. — as a maid. E. Young. Modest 
and bashful as a virgin. Duchess of Newcastle. — as the dove. 
Shakespear. 

In distant climes a plant there grows, 

Which from the touch its leaves will close, 

And trembling turn itself away 

If aught approach its fragile spray ; 

Its kindred plant they say abides 

Unseen our northern clime beneath, 

From ev'ry idle gaze it hides, 

And shrinks at ev'ry ruder breath ; 

Amid the snows it thrives the best 

Which guard the virgin's spotless breast. 

'Tis Modesty ! a lovelier flow'r 

Than spring's first snow-drop born 'mid February's shower. 

Poem, Margaret of Anjou. 
MOMENTARY as a sound. Shakespear. Momentary and short 
like a flash of lightning, which vanisheth in the twinkling of 
an eye. Tillotson. 
MONSTROUS as the Gorgon prince of hell. Marlowe. 
MORTAL as the bolt in Jove's avenging hand. W. S. Landor. 
MOTIONLESS as death. Dryden, N. Rowe.— as rocks. Sir W. 
Scott. — as a statue. Motteux, N. Rome, <§• others. Pale and 
motionless as is a marble statue. /. Harris. Motionless as an 
image. T. Moore. — as a stone. Arabian Nights Entertainments, 
C. Churchill. She stood motionless, like a terrified female in 
a storm, who hears the thunder roll on every side of her, and 
apprehends in every fresh peal the bolt which is to strike her 



M U S 

dead. Sir W. Scott. Motionless as a sleeping babe she lay. 
Southey. 

MOVE like a god. Pope.— like a goddess. Marmion. 

MOVELESS as a tower. Pope. — as the centre. Watts. 

MOUNT upwards like a flame. Randolph. Mount as high as 
eagles soar. Marlowe. Mount and sing like a sky-lark. /. 
H. Stevenson. 

MOURN as a dove. Sacred Script., Sir W. Davenant, fy others. 
— like turtles. Sir W. Davenant. — like a turtle that hath lost 
her mate. Sackville. Mourn for thee as a turtle for its mate. 
Play, Laughable Lover. In gentle murmurs will I mourn, as 
mourns the mate-forsaken dove. Jephtha*, a sacred Drama. 
Mourn as the solitary lamb laments with plaintive cries its 
absent dam. PolwheWs Theocritus. 

MOURNFUL — like the fair morning clad in misty fog. Spenser. 
— as death. Cumberland. 

MOW down like autumn corn. Shakespear, TV. Shirley. — like 
the grass. A. Hill, Byron. 

MULTIPLY as doth a fish. Poole's Parnassus. Multiplied as 
the stars of heaven. Sacred Script. 

MULTITUDINOUS as the sands on the beach, or the motes 
in a sun-beam. Foote. 

MUNIFICENT as Nature. Massinger, W. Hayley. 

MURMUR like a swarm of bees. Chaucer. — as with the sound 
of summer flies. W. Wordsworth. Murmuring as a fire that 
labours with the wind. Gary's Dante. Murmur like flames 
pent up, or like retiring seas. Addison. — like a brook. Byron. 
— like the noise of a falling stream. Fragments of Ancient 
Poetry. 

MUSICAL as Apollo's lute. Milton. Sweet and musical as 
bright Apollo's lute strung with his hair. Shakespear. More 
musical than the pipe of Hermes. Ibid. — than the harp of 
Apollo. A. Hill. — than is a syren's voice. Play, Cupid's 



MUX 

Whirligig. The Delian lute is not more musical than thy 
sweet voice. Play, Hector of Germany. His accents fell as 
evening echoes fall, each word as gentle and as musical. M. A. 
Browne. 

MUTABLE. More mutable than Proteus, or the moon. Syl- 
vester. — than wind. Ibid. — than fickle winds. Play, Spanish 
Tragedy. 

MUTE as a stone. Lidgate. — as a statue. Middleton, 8$ Rowley. 
— as Silence' self. F. Burney. — as death. C. Churchill, G. 
Colman, fy others. Mute and pale as death itself. Beaumont § 
Fletcher. — as the dead. T. Moore. — as the grave. A. Cowley. 
Mute as night, as silent and as secret. T. Heywood. — as a 
fish. Fielding, Gay, fy others. — as a mackarel. Foote, A. Mac- 
laren, fy others. — as a mouse in a cheese, or a goose in a hay- 
rick, or a fish in a kettle. C. Cibber. — as a bell without a 
clapper. T. Holcroft. 



N. 

i\ AKED as truth. South, J. Beaumont's Psyche. — as light. 
Montgomery. — as unclouded light. Crown. — as the day. 
Mickles Lusiad. — as a Mauritanian Moor. Green's Tu auoaue. 
— as a worm. Chaucer. T am left as naked as my nail. /. 
Palsgrave, T. Heywood, fy others. 

NARROW as a needle's eye. Sir TV. Davenant, C. Shadwell. 

NATIVE as my blood. Jonson. 

NATURAL as the light. Netley Abbey, by Pearce. — as sleep. 
Cumberland. — as to breathe. South. — as to breathe the air. 
J. Hervey.- — as for corn to bend under the ripened ear. H. 
Blair. — as that leaves should fall in autumn, or that fruit 
should drop from the tree when it is fully ripe. Ibid. — as for 
the autumnal leaf to change its hue. Ibid. — as streams flow 
towards the ocean. Akenside. — as for fish to cleave the water. 
P. Pindar. Natural and easy as for fire to cast abroad a 



NIP 

flame. South. Natural to me as it is to a bird to fly, or a fish 
to swim. Play, Folly of Priestcraft. Shadows do not more 
naturally attend shining bodies, than envy pursues worth and 
merit. South. Naturally as pigs squeak. C. Butler. 

NAUSEOUS as are the fumes of smothering straw. E. Ward. 

NEAR as the confines of night and day. South. — as the extremest 
ends of parallels. Shakespear. Near to me as branches to 
the tree whereon they grow. Cyril Turner. 

NEAT as a bridegroom. Marston. More neat and splendid 
than a virgin bride trimmed in her nuptial dresses. /. Smith. 

NECESSARY as sleep. Marston. Necessary for man's life as 
water, air, and fire. R. Edwards. 

NEEDLESS, as to bring an argument to prove that it is not 
midnight while the sun shines full in a man's face. South. 

NEW as the morn. W. Cartwright. — as morning dew. Ibid. — 
as day. Jonson. — as peep of day. Duchess of Newcastle. 

NICE as ermines. Dryden. 

NIMBLE as the winged hours. R. Herrick. — as fiery elves. 
Poole's Parnassus. — as the wind. Spenser, The Shamrock. 
Nimbler than air. Play, Honest Lawyer. Nimble as thought. 
Plays, Hoffman's Tragedy, King Saul • ty others. Fly nim- 
bler than the bolts of Jove. T. Rawlins. Shoot through the 
air as nimbly as a star. Poole's Parnassus. More nimble than 
a dove, or empty eagles in their morning's flight. Sir W. Da- 
venant. Nimble as a leopard. Sir P. Sidney. — as a cat. II 
Trionfo della Costanza. — as a squirrel. T. Heywood, Sir TV. 
Davenant. — as the hare. Poetical Calendar. — as a Lydian 
rabbit. A. Cowley. — as an eel. /. Taylor, 8$ others. — as quick- 
silver. G. Colman. — as a sempster's needle. J. Lilly. Nim- 
bler than a tumbler. John Taylor. Nimble-fingered as a 
harper. Ibid. Sweet and nimble as the leaping juice of Crete. 
Sir W. Davenant. More nimbly than Vertumnus. Jonson. 

NIP me, as the bitter north-east wind doth check the tender 
blossoms in the spring. Play, Arden of Feversham. 



N 01 

NOISELESS as the light. C. Hopkins. — as planets move. Sir 
W. Davenant. Let us make less noise than Time's soft feet, 
or planets when they move. Ibid. Noiseless as the falling 
dew. J. Wilson, Author of Isle of Palms. 

NOISY as the wind. Swift. — like the noise of the sea. Sacred 
Script. — like the rushing of many waters. Ibid. 

NUMBERLESS as stars. Drayton, Cowley, $ others.— as leaves 
on the oak. Shakespear. — as sands. /. Banks. — as the sand 
by the sea side. Sacred Script. Numberless and bright as 
crystal drops of morning dew. Psalms by Brady 8$ Tate. 

NUMEROUS as glittering gems of morning dew. E. Young. 
More numerous than the dews on earth diffused from morn's 
prolific womb. /. Merrick. Numerous as dew-drops from the 
womb of morning. A. L. Aikin. — as the stars. Banks, Durfey, 
fy others. — as the stars of heaven. TV. Rose. In number more 
than are the stars of night. Hoole's Ariosto. Numerous as 
the waves that break on the resounding shore. E. Young. — 
as the sand. Duke. More numerous than the sands that bind 
the seas. C. Hopkins, in Dryden s Miscellany. Numerous as 
the sands that crowd the shores, the barriers of the ocean. 
Pitt. Nor are in number more, the sands whereon the rolling 
billows roar. Poole's Parnassus. Numerous as the sands of 
fretful ocean. Thurlow. In number more than dust in fields, 
or sands along the shore. Pope. More than there are sands 
upon the Libyan shore. Poole's Parnassus. Numerous as shells 
by Neptune cast on shore. Garth. — as autumn leaves, /. Ban- 
croft. Than autumn's ears far more, or leaves of trees, or 
sands on Neptune's shore. Poole's Parnassus. — as leaves on 
trees, or sands upon the shore. Dryden, Pope. — as leaves that 
tremble in the shady grove. E. Young. — as leaves in forests 
strew the ground, when chiding autumn bids her gale resound. 
Preston's App. Rhodius. — as bearded ears in fields. Dryden. 
— as ears of standing corn, or leaves of trees. C. Hopkins. — 
as olives on Palladian trees. Garth. — as Hybla bees. Ibid. 
Not Hybla's mountains in the jocund prime, upon her many 



OLD 

bushes of sweet thyme, show greater numbers of industrious 
bees. Poole's Parnassus. 



O. 

OBDURATE as a rock. Byron. — as a rock of adamant. Glap- 
thorne. — as the grave. Goring. — as brass. Quarles. 

OBEDIENT as Abraham. Barclay. Obedient to all his mo- 
tions as a puppet moved by wires. John Baillie. 

OBSCURE, as doth a cloud the sun's bright shining rays. 
Harington. More obscure than darkness. T. Heyivood. Ob- 
scure as hell. R. Hurst. 

OBSTINATE as a mule. Poetical Calendar, Joseph Reed, fy 
others. — as an idiot. C. Johnson. 

OBTRUSIVE as the air. John Bidlake. 

OBVIOUS. Proofs, plain and obvious as the light. Play, 
Zelmane. 

ODIOUS as comparisons. Shakespear, Odious and despicable 
as a wicked old man. South. More odious to your sight than 
toads and adders. Dryden. More odious to me than foul 
weather on a May day. Otway. 

ODORIFEROUS. More odoriferous than balm. Play, Hoff- 
man's Tragedy. 

ODOROUS as incense gathering in the skies. Savage. The 
Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows purple to the 
violet, blushes to the rose, did never yield an odour rich as 
this. W. Habington. 

OLD as Time. A. Behn, T. Scot, 8$ others. — as Sybilla. Haring- 
ton, Shakespear. — as Nestor. Play, How to choose a good Wife. 
— as a weather-beaten conduit of many kings' reigns. Shake- 
spear. Old and grey as winter. T. Killigrew. It is as old 
as Adam, and bears date with human nature itself. South. 
Old-fashioned as if tutored in the ark. P. Pindar. 

K 



OMI 

OMINOUS as the looks of Medusa. Marmion. 

ONWARD they came like summer wave that dances to the 
shore. Sir W. Scott. 

OPEN as the day. South, Watts, fy others. A hand open as day 
for melting charity. ShaJcespear. Open and generous as the 
teeming season that crowns the labours of the various year. 
W. Hett. Open as day-light. A. Hill. Charity, open and 
free as light, or element. The Saviour, a Poem. His eye is 
open as the morning's. Sir John Denham. Open as the sun 
in his high meridian at noon-day. R. Nevile. — as a shadeless 
sky. Landon. To open like a fragrant bud before the morn- 
ing's eye. Sir W. Davenant. Open as roses at the gentle 
aspect of the sun. J. Corye. 

OPPOSITE as yea and nay. Quarles. — as black and purest 
white. Ibid, Light and darkness are not more opposite to 
one another, than the holy nature of God is to sin. Tillotson. 
Opposed as darkness to the light of heaven. Pollok. 

ORIENT as the day. Thurlow. The brightest of the stars was 
not so orient as her crystal eyes. R. Green. — as the pearl. 
Lilly. 

OVERFLOW like sudden floods. Howard fy Dryden's Indian 
Queen. — like a mighty deluge. Tillotson. — like to the raging 
foam. Play, Youth's Comedy. 

OVERPOWERING as when Jove's planet, distant and alone, 
flashes from out the sultry summer sky, and bids each lesser 
star give up its place. Cornwall. 

OVERTAKE us with more speed than falling torrents, or the 
swiftest tide. Banks. 

OUTRAGEOUS as a sea. Milton, T. Bayly.— as a mother 
bear. Dryden. 

OUTSHINE as a sunbeam does a lamp. J. Ford. — as the moon 
does a star. Ibid. Outshine her as the sun a star. Play, 
Querer por Querer. Outshine as far as Sol in light outshines 



PAL 

a star. T. Ward. It outshone his golden orb as far as his full 
blaze outshines the twinkling star. Hayley. 

OUTSTRIP all kings as far as doth the sun obscure a little star. 
John, Taylor. Far swifter than the nimble lightning's flash out- 
strips the sluggish thunder peal that follows it. G. Colman,jun. 



Jr ALE as death. Play, Hoffman's Tragedy, Cowley, fy others. — as 
the cheeks of death. Akenside. — as the cheek faded by sorrow. 
Landon. Pale and wan as death. Gildon. His looks are pale 
and languid as if death had seized him. E. Ward. Pale and 
livid as the countenance of death. E. Carter, in the Rambler. 
Pale as a corpse. Mirandola, Scott, fy others. — as the withering 
tenants of the tomb. Ogilvie. — as a ghost. C. Hopkins, F. Rey- 
nolds, fy others. — as a tormented ghost. Chaucer. — as the ghost 
that by the gleaming moon withdraws the curtain of the mur- 
derer's bed. W. J. Mickle. — as a spectre on the Stygian coast. 
MickWs Lusiad. — as a spirit who is surprised by sun-rise. Sir 
W. Scott.' — as a man long unslept. Chaucer. — like a man 
awaked from a swoon. Lidgate. — as a pensive cloistered nun. 
Charlotte Smith. Paler than guilt. T. Yalden, in Dryden's 
Miscellany. Pale as the waning moon. Penrose. — as the moon 
before the solar ray. S. Boyse. Cheek, pale as is the moon's 
chaste lustre. C. A. Elton. — as the colours of the lunar bow. 
John Home. — as Cynthia's rays. C. Johnson. — as the last star 
that fades before the day-break. Landon. — as fires when mas- 
tered by the light. Dryden. — as a lily. Duchess of Newcastle ; 
Play, Fatal Union ; fy others. — as the snowy skin of lily 
leaves. Sir W. Davenant. — as modest lily of the vale. Poem, 
The Union of the Roses. — as a snowdrop. Byron. — as droop- 
ing snowdrops. Walwyn. Paler than the hue of snowdrops 
trembling to the chilly gale. MickWs Lusiad. Pale as a prim- 
rose. Shakespear. — as horse-radish. Mrs. Cowley. — as a stick 
of horse-radish. Play, Midnight Wanderer, by Pearce. — as a 
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parsnip. Morton. — as alabaster. Byron. — as marble. L. Mac- 
nally, H. Downing. — as marble o'er the tomb. L. Macnally. 
— as monumental marble. Byron, Southey. — as sepulchral 
marble. Southey. Paler and colder than the marble bust. 
Landon. Like sculptured marble, pale and cold. Poem, Ellen 
Fitzarthur. Pale as marble columns. Cornwall. — as a statue. 
Play, Alonzo. — as a statue in an abbey chapel. Durfey. You 
look paler than one of these white statues. R. Shiel. Pale 
as a statue bending o'er a tomb. J. Wilson, author of Isle 
of Palms. — as clay. Sir W. Scott. — as the moon in her first 
quarter. Ibid. An outline pale and indistinct as that of the 
moon when the winter morning is far advanced. Ibid. Pale 
as ashes. Gascoigne, Spenser, fy others. Pale and wan as ashes 
was his look. Spenser. Pale as lead. Chaucer, Sackville, fy 
others. — like April morn. Ramsay. Pale like April morn 
clad in a wintry cloud. Ballad, William fy Margaret. — like 
the morning's sun rising over misty hills. Play, Codrus. — as 
milk. Shakespear. — as box. Chaucer, G. Sandys. — as a sheet. 
M. P. Andrews. — as a sheet of white paper. Colman. — as a 
piece of chalk. /. BicJcerstaff. Paler than the snow. Shake- 
spear, Lee. Pale as snowy Appenines. W. Sampson. Pale 
and pure as moon-light snows. Landon. Pale as winter moon- 
light. Theobald. — as the ice-incrusted streams beneath the 
cold moon's trembling gleams. A. Seward. — as the watery 
cloud. A. Dow. — as a watery cloud that seems to spread, 
slow rising from a lake. W. Churchey. — as the pale ocean on 
a sunless morn. Southey. 

PALL on her temper like a twice-told tale. Akenside. 

PANT after him as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. 
Sacred Script. Panting like the smitten deer. Gay. 

PASS away like a shadow. Wisdom of Solomon. Pass like a 
shadow on the wall. Chaucer. Pass away like a summer's 
shade. Spenser. — like summer clouds. C. Fox. — like clouds 
before the sun. Quarles. Pass away like clouds before the up- 
rising sun. Cumberland. — like smoke. H. Blair. — like smoke 



PER 

before the wind. Quarles. —like a vapour. Mrs. Cowley. — 
like gentle winds over the standing corn. T. Cooke. Pass away- 
like a summer breeze. Mrs. Hemans. — like April showers 
over a field. E. Young. — like the pageant of a day. H. Blair. 
— as a winter's tale by the fire-side. E. Young. Pass through 
the difficulties with more ease than a bullet passeth through 
the thin air, or a man would pass through a net of cobweb. 
Tillotson. 

PASSABLE as air. Sir W. Davenant, Dryden, ty others. 

PASSIVE as a stone. Montgomery. — like a ship to the violence 
of the waves. H.Blair. Her disposition was passive to in- 
struction's breath, as vernal buds to Zephyr's soothing gale. 
T. Hull. 

PATIENT as Job. Barclay, Shakespear, fy others. — as the dove. 
Charlotte Charke, — as the female dove. Shakespear. — as the 
tortoise. N. Tate. — as the midnight sleep. Shakespear. — as a 
gentle stream. Ibid. — as the spirit of a saint dying and leaving 
all the world behind him. Banks. 

PEACEABLE as sleep. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as spotless in- 
nocence. Play, Maid's Tragedy. 

PEACEFUL as a calm. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as the dead. 
Sotheby's Oberon. — as a sleeping child. M. A. Browne. Peace- 
ful and harmless as the dove. E. Ward. 

PEEVISH as children waked. T. Shipman. — as a child who has 
lost its plaything. John Baillie. — as a sick monkey. L. Machin. 
PELLUCID as glass. R. Nevile. 

PEREMPTORY as wrathful planets, death, or destiny. Marlowe. 
PERFECT as circles. Donne. 

PERFIDIOUS as the seas or winds. Beaumont # Fletcher, T. 

Betterton. 
PERFUME the air with incense richer than the phcenix' funeral 

pile. T. Nabbs. Perfume my chamber like the phcenix' nest. 

Behn. Perfumed as the phcenix' nest. Play, Marriage Broker. 



PER 

Perfumed, as if Arabian winds scattered their spices loosely 
on the face of some rich earth fruitful with aromates. Nabbs. 
Yield a more precious breath than that which moves the whis- 
pering leaves in the Panchaian groves. Habington. 

A thousand dew-drops gemm'd their bed, 

And Heaven's wide cope stretch'd o'er their head ; 

Their curtain the white thorn of May 

Shedding its blossoms, as the spray 

Trembled beneath the Zephyr's sway : 

And ne'er did golden censer fling 

On velvet couch of slumb'ring king 

Such perfumes as that Zephyr's wing. 

Poem, Margaret of Anjou. 
PERISH like a hasty blossom cropt by the setting winter. Peaps. 
— like flowers. Landon. — like fleeting exhalations found no 
more. W. Cowper. 
PERSPICUOUS. The purpose is perspicuous even as sub- 
stance. Shakcspear. 

PERSUADE. You may as soon persuade that snow, the inno- 
cent fleece of heaven that is borne upon the fleet wings of 
some sportive wind, is Ethiop's wool, as call this truth. /. 
Shirley. 

PERSUASIVE as reason. A. Pasquin. 

PERT as a pearmonger. Gay. — as a pyet. Sir TV. Scott. — as an 

unhooded hawk. W. Taverner. 
PERVERSE as a hog. Smollett. 
PERVIOUS as the air. Battle of Talavera, a Poem. 
PETRIFIED. Stand petrified like Lot's wife. The Robbers, a 

Play from Schiller. 

PIERCE like lightning. Glapthorne, T. Heywood, $ others. — 
like quick lightning from the stormy skies. Sir W. Killigrew. 
— like a pointed dart. Watts. Piercing as the mid-day sun. 
Shakespear. — as light. Duchess of Newcastle, Dryden's Mis- 
cellany. — as light from heaven. A. Hill. More piercing than 



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the darts that break from burning exhalations' power. Play, 
King John, Piercing as the point of a needle. Pierce Plow- 
man's Vision. Eye, piercing as a needle. C. ShadwelL — like 
lynx's eyes. Play, Locrine. 

PINE. — So pines the turtle in the lonely grove, 

Robb'd by the spoiler of her mated love ; 
In vain the doves of finest plume and voice, 
Court the poor mourner to another choice ; 
From spray to spray with drooping wings she flies, 
Bemoans her fate, and solitary dies. Sturmy. 

PITEOUS as looks the mother on her lowly babe, when death 
doth close his tender dying eyes. Shakespear. 

PITILESS as death. Dryden. — as a storm. Spenser. — as fire. 
Play, Different Widows. 

PITY— such as tender parents feel. Watts. 

PLACID as an infant's rest. W. Richardson ; Play, Indians. 

PLAGUE. I will plague him worse than Moses did the Egypti- 
ans. T. Holcroft. 

PLAIN as truth. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, Marston. It is evident ; 
plain as the light that shines. Play, Fond Lady. Plain as the 
sun. Durfey, Parnell. — as day. N. Lee. — as the noon-day. 
Tillotson. The case seems plain as on your face your nose is. 
Sir W. Davenant. Plain as the nose on a man's face. Quevedo 
translated-, Play, Momus turned Fabulist. — as noses upon faces. 
C. Butler. — as the nose on my face. Colman. Plain, easy, and 
intelligible as that two and two make four. South. More plain 
than dull simplicity. Dryden 's Troilus. Plain as way to parish 
church. Shakespear. Plain as a pack-staff. Greene's Arcadia, 
Foote. — as a pike-staff. Gay, J. Sturmy, ty others. 

PLAINTIVE. She pours her melancholy forth as sweetly 
plaintive, as when Philomel beneath some poplar shade bemoans 
her young. Murphy. 

PLAY like bird in bush. Sylvester. 



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PLAYFUL as the sportive kitten. P. Pindar. — as a lamb. Play, 
Barber of Seville. — as the fawn. Haverhill, a Poem by John 
Webb. — as the God of Love. Shepherd's Lottery. 

PLEASANT as sleep after toil. Spenser. — as ease after war. 
Ibid. — as the light. A. Cowley. — as returning light. Ramsay. 
Pleasanter to me than to behold the jocund month of May, in 
whose green head of youth the amorous Flora shows her 
various flowers. /. Kirk. Pleasant as the morning dews that 
fall on Zion's hill. Watts. — as the calm dew of the morning. 
Ossian. — as the shower of the morning. Ibid. — as the shower 
of spring, when it softens the branch of the oak, and the young 
leaf rears its green head. Ibid. — as the calm shower of spring, 
when the sun looks on the field, and the light cloud flies over 
the hills. Ibid. — as the shower which falls on the sunny field. 
Ibid. — as the spring. Duchess of Newcastle. — as the odorous 
month of May. C. Cotton. — as the breath of evening. Poem, 
Margaret of Anjou. — as the gale of spring. Ossian. — as the 
gale of the hill. Ibid. — as a summer's evening. Duchess of New- 
castle. — as Elysium. E. Young. Pleasant to me as Paradise 
was to Adam the first day of his creation. Marlowe, W. Mount- 
fort. Pleasant and mournful like the memory of joys that are 
past. Ossian. Speech more pleasant than sweet harmony. 
Marlowe. Pleasant as the light of the morning when the sun 
riseth, even as a morning without clouds. Sacred Script. — as 
the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Ibid. Pleasant, 
fresh, and clear, as when the last of April offers to sweet May 
the pride and glory of the youthful spring. /. Kirk. — as the 
sweet South that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and 
giving odour. Shahespear. — as to escape the chain of hard 
constraint. Potter's Eschylus. 

PLEASE like the choristers of air when first they hail the ap- 
proach of laughing May. J. Warton, in Dodsley's Collection. 

PLEASING as the day. Poetical Recreations. — as dawn of day. 
Gildon. — as light to the eyes. Atterbury. — as the rosy morn 
whose lovely cheeks look smiling on the day. W. Hemings. 



PON 

Pleasing and gay as the sweet smiling summer. W. Hett. 
More pleasing than a summer's morn. /. Clare. Pleasing as 
sunshine to the bee. Gay. — as winter suns or summer shade. 
Dryden. Pleasing to my sense as sleep after a tedious watch- 
ing. Glapthorne. — as dreams of health to the diseased. Jacob. 
— as the pipe of Mercury which charmed the hundred eyes of 
watchful Argus, and enforced him to sleep. Play, Leir. — as 
hope. Play, Momus turned Fabulist. — as hope to the despair- 
ing penitent. Jacob. 

PLENTY as rabbits in a warren. Fielding. — as blackberries. 
Centlivre, Sir W. Scott. — as nettles. Play, Plymouth in an 
Uproar. — as hops. M. P. Andrews. 

PLIABLE as an ozier. Lacy, J. Worsdale. — as a twig. W. 
Davies. 

PLIANT as a hazel stick. Play, Interlude of Youth. — as the 
shoots of a young tree in vernal flower. T. Moore. More 
pliant than wax. John Baillie. 

PLUMP as a partridge. E. Ravenscroft, Pope, ty others. Plump 
and shy as a partridge. Sir W. Scott. Plump as barn-door 
chicken. P. Pindar. — as a puffin. Farquhar. — as a cherry. 
Herrick. — as grapes. T. Killigrew ; Play, Psyche. — as grapes 
after showers. Behn. Plump and grey as a gooseberry. R. 
Burns. Plump and juicy as a damson. E. Ward. Plump as 
stalled theology. E. Young. 

POINT to him as naturally as the needle to the north. Young 
Hypocrite, in Footers Comic Theatre. Pointed at as a prodigy. 
Rawlins. Sharply pointed as a thorn. Herrick. 

POISON like a scorpion's dart. Beattie. 

POISONOUS as the serpent. Mirandola. — as an aspic's tooth. 
Moses Mendez. 

POLISHED as marble. E. Young. 

POLITE as elegance. Savage. 

PONDEROUS. More ponderous than the sand that lies upon 
the new forsaken shore. Quarles. 



POO 

POOR as Job. ShaJcespear, Armin, ty others. — as Job, an alche- 
mist, or a poet. Marston. Poor and loathsome as was leprous 
Job. Play, Three English Brothers. Poor as the beggar Irus. 
Massinger. — as Cincinnatus. Thomson. Poorer than naked 
Poverty. Beaumont's Psyche. Poor as a miser. Byron. — as 
winter. ShaJcespear. — as a church mouse. T. Durfey, S. Foote, 
fy others. — as a starved herring. M. P. Andrews. 

PORTENTOUS as the written wall which struck o'er midnight 
bowls the proud Assyrian pale. E. Young. 

POSITIVE. It is as positive as the earth is firm. ShaJcespear. 

POTENT as whirlwinds. H. Boyd.— as the breath of fate. 

Marston. 
POUNCE. Kindle at the danger, andlike the eagle in the midst 

of storms thus pounce upon his prey. Garrick. 

POUR like a deluge. Dryden, Lillo. Pour as a flood. Smollett, 
Sir W. Scott. Pour down like a flood from the hills. Somervile. 
Pour on us like a flood of light. Lloyd on CJiurcJiill. Pour 
upon him like rain. Byron. Pour down like winter rain. 
Landon. 

POWERFUL as death. Brown. — as the voice of Fate. Marston. 
as the sun shining in meridian strength. Montgomery. — as 
Medea's drugs. TomJcis. 

PRATTLE more incessant than a jay. M. Pilkington. — like 

parrots. E. Ward. 
PRECARIOUS as the cast of a dye. Centlivre. 

PRECIOUS as the dew the amorous bounty of the morn casts 
on the rose's cheek. Glapthorne. More precious than gold. 
Lidgate. Precious and rare as Ophir's golden ore. Blachnore. 
More precious to my heart than life or freedom. W. Hayley, 
— than the plank thrown to the drowning wretch. Dr. John 
Browne. Precious as my soul. Sir W. Davenant. More pre- 
cious than the vital founts that play within my heart. Andrew 
Beckett. Precious as Eriphyle's bracelet. T. Jordan. More 
precious than the Egyptian pearl. M. R. Mitford. 



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PREGNANT as vernal buds. L. Theobald. 

PRESAGE. Like a comet with portentous blaze of threatening 
beauty shine, and armed with fate presage destruction and the 
fall of kings. Bevil Higgons. Presaging famine, pestilence, 
and war, like an autumnal ruddy streaming star. Sylvester. 

PRESUPPOSE as naturally as the consequent does the antece- 
dent. South. 

PREY on itself, like monsters of the deep. Shdkespear. 

PRIVATE. Kept private as religious rites from the unhallowed 
view of common eyes. Otway. 

PRIZE your honour more than life or human happiness. Play, 
Valiant Welshman. 

PRODUCTIVE as the sun. Pope, Sheffield Duke of Buckingham. 

PROFITABLE as autumn's harvest. Duchess of Newcastle. 

PROFOUND as reason. Savage. — as hell. Swift. I have dived 
in horrors as profound as hell. Play, Ungrateful Favorite. 
Profound as the sea. Sir W. Davenant, Higgons. 

PROGRESSIVE as a stream. W. Cowper. 

PROMPT. I am prompt as lightning to your service. N. Tate. 

PROPORTION. Bears no more proportion to it, than finite 
does to infinite, or than temporal to eternal. Tillotson. 

PROSTRATE as earth. T. Heywood. — like summer's corn by 
tempests lodged. Shahespear. 

PROUD as Lucifer. Chaucer, Barclay, fy others. — as prince in 
pall. Chaucer. — as any great Mogul. Somervile. — as the Turk- 
ish Soldan. Poetical Calendar. — as a beauty. C. Cibber. — as the 
lady of a new made lord. P. Pindar. — as May. Jonson. — as a 
peacock. Chaucer; Play, Appius fy Virginia; ty others. Proud 
and pert as a pie. Chaucer. Pert and proud as any popinjay. 
Sir W. Scott. 

PROWL like hungry wolves. R. Hamilton. 

PUBLIC as the air, and noon-day sun. A. Seward. 



PUN 

PUNCTUAL as the sun to time. A. Hill. — as a tertian ague. 
Play, Braggadocio. 

PUNY as pigmies. E. Ward. 

PURE as innocence. Dekker, W. Hemings, fy others. Pure 
and fresh as innocence. Byron. — as unblemished innocence. 
T. Heywood. — as angel innocence. Jane West. — as maiden in- 
nocence. W. Mason. — as the thoughts of infant innocence. 
Dr. Johnson. — as virtue. T. Durfey. — as infant goodness. 
Thomson. — as infant chastity. R. Bloomjield. — as heaven. 
Greatheed, Hunt, ty others. More pure than are the heavens. 
Marmion. Pure as purity. Mirandola. — as grace. Shakespear. 
— as sanctity. Byron. — as sanctity's best shrine. T. Middleton. 
— as truth. Mallet, Cumberland. — as holy truth. Play, Fatal 
Falsehood. — as vestal truth. Thomson. — as friendship. Mal- 
let. Pure, simple, and unmixed, as sincerity. South. Pure 
and innocent as the thoughts of dying saints. A. Cowley. — as 
spotless saints. H. More. More pure than sainted spirits 
journeying to the sky. Mary Robinson. Prayers, as pure and 
free from earthly thought, as e'er found passage through the 
strict gate of heaven. T. Randolph. Pure and spotless as a 
soul in heaven. Crown. Pure as angels. H. Downing; J. 
Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. Free and pure from all un- 
chastity as angels are of sin. Duchess of Newcastle. Pure as 
the spotless seraph. R. Shiel. — as the first created mortals who 
in the world's prime innocence began. Banks. Pure like a 
vestal. J. H. Stevenson. — as the white livery worn by angels 
in their Maker's sight. Dekker. Pure and white as angels' 
soft desires. Farquhar. Pure and enlightened as a spirit. J. 
H. Stevenson. Pure as a blessed spirit. Sir W. Scott. — as a 
new baptized soul. F. Beaumont. — as infancy. T. Holcroft. — 
as an infant's thoughts. Southey. — as an infant's dreams or an- 
gel's wishes. Fatal Falsehood, a Tragedy. — as infant's sleep. 
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as an infant's breath. /. Wilson, author 
of Isle of Palms; Milman. — as a maiden. Interlude, Nature, by 
Henry Medwall. — as light. Dryden, Play, Sulieman ; fy others. 



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as unshaded light. G. E. Howard. — as first created light. Sir 
W. Davenant. — as light first streaming from the heights of 
heaven. P. Francis. — as the effulgence of ethereal light. W. 
Richardson. — as morning light. Chatterton. Pure and ex- 
haustless as the solar blaze. Miss Porden. Pure and spotless 
as the solar beam. Rome, a Poem. Pure as the sun's beams. 
Alexander Earl of Sterline, Machin. — as the brightest beams 
shot from the sun at his full height. Poole's Parnassus. — 
as heaven's ethereal beam. Universal Magazine. — as the light 
of heaven's ethereal ray. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. Pure 
and fiery as Phoebus' beams. Marlowe. The morning's orient 
beam is not more pure, more stainless than my truth. D. 
Mallet. Pure as the light of a celestial ray. Pomfret. Purer 
than the day. /. Beaumont. Pure as the day spring. G. 
Townsend. — as the naked heavens. Wordsworth. Pure and 
serene as the blue depths of heaven. J. Wilson, author of Isle of 
Palms. — as the lightning's livid ray. Anon. Translation of 
Anacreon. I know thee pure even as the lights of heaven. 
W. Richardson. Pure as fixed stars. Pomfret. Shall pure 
as the day-star burn. Lower. Pure as the young moon's 
coronet. T. Moore. — as the moon's chaste beam. M.R. Mitford. 
— as fire. Johnson, Marlowe, 8$ others. Pure and clear like 
the celestial fires. Moliere, Berwick edit. 1771. Pure and ra- 
diant as celestial fire. J. Bird. My love is as pure to you 
and as free from blemish, as is the element of fire, or the 
white robe of innocence. A. Brome. Pure as the vestal fire. 
Drayton, Dilke, fy others. — as vestal flames. Mountford, Pix. 
A flame as pure as that which burns on holy Vesta's altars. 
Fountain. Pure, chaste, and lasting, as fair Vesta's flame. C. 
Johnson. My love to you is as pure as the flame that burns 
upon an altar. Shadwell. Pure as celestial flame. G. Walker. 
— as the flame that warms an angel's breast. The Saviour, a 
Poem. — as the morning. W. Wordsworth. — as early morn. G. 
Townsend. — as the blush of the first morn. Ibid. — as the un- 
tainted breath of morn. Mrs. Brookes. — as morning's dew. 
Ely's Cossack. Pure and fair as dew-drops. Pollok. Pure 



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as the fresh morning drops upon the rose. Shakespear. As 
pure a tear as evening sheds, of rosy dew. B. Hoole. Purer 
than the new-formed pearl bosomed within the opening rose- 
bud's silken folds. Play, Sulieman. 
A joy, as pure and stainless as the gem 
That morning finds on blossom, leaf, or stem 
Of the fair garden's queen, the lovely rose, 
Ere breeze or sunbeam from her diadem 
Have stol'n one brilliant, and around she throws 
Her perfumes o'er the spot which with her beauty glows. 

Bernard Barton. 
Pure as the crystal drop which morning's dewy ringers on the 
blooms of May distil. Akenside. — as early morn's ambrosial 
tears spangling the lily on the mountain's side. Mary Robinson. 
— as the chaste morning's breath. Suckling. — as the breath of 
spring when forth it spreads. R. Bloomfield. Pure as are those 
gales and springs that in Elysium do refresh the blest. Foun- 
tain. — as air. J. Wilson, Author of Isle of Palms. — as the 
vernal air. Sotheby's Oberon. — more pure than ether. Ann 
Yearsley. Pure like ether. W. Wordsworth. — as hawthorn 
buds. Play, Norwood Gipsies. — as buds before they blow. M. 
Bruce. — as blossoms which are newly blown. Browne. — as the 
first opening of the blooms in May. Marston. Pure and 
lovely as the first fresh rose that in the dewy groves of Para- 
dise grew in Creation's morning. R. Shiel. Pure as the white 
rose in the bloom. James Hogg. — as the unsullied lily. Shake- 
spear. — as the spotless lily. Browne. — as spotless lilies born in 
May. Duchess of Newcastle. — as the timely blossom whose 
forward zeal decks the arising spring. Peaps. — as snow. Sa- 
cred Script., Shakespear, fy others. — as the white snow. T. 
Porter. — as new fallen snow. Browne, Ramsay, 8? others. — as 
new fallen snow on mount Libanus. Burkhead. — as falling 
snow. Poem, Abelard to Eloisa. — as the flakes of falling snows. 
/. G. Cooper.— as snow-flakes ere they melt. Nathaniel Hol- 
lingsworth. — as snow in the fall refined by the bleak northern 
blast. Davenport. — as virgin snow. The Footman, an Opera. 



PUR 

Her thoughts were ever pure as virgin snows from heaven de- 
scending. R. Dodsley. Purer than driven snow. J. Harris ; 
Play, The Italians. Pure and more spotless than the wan- 
dering snow which the least breath of any calm wind blows up 
and down. Peaps. — as the mountain snows. Rogers; Play> 
The Spaniards. Purer than the snow which with a silver cir- 
cle crowned the head of the steep mountain. W. Thompson. 
Pure as Alpine snow. Beaumont ty Fletcher. — as the eternal 
snows on Alpine heights. F. Burney. — as Albania's snow. W. 
Browne. — as wind-fanned snow. Ibid. — as the unsullied snow 
that never felt a sunbeam. Murphy. Pure and untainted as 
the winter's snow. W. Hett. Pure like midnight snow. /. 
Stephens. — as April snow. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — 
Pure and chaste as ice or crystal. Play, Emilia. Pure as gold. 
Robert Greene, T. Moore. — as refined gold. Chaucer, Quarles. 
— as the gold that hath been seven times tried in the fire. 
Play, Jack Drums Entertainment. — as silver from the crucible 
that twice has stood the torture of the fire, and inquisition of 
the forge. R. Blair. — as the diamond. /. Day, Marmion. 
Pure and hard as a diamond. Sir W. Scott. — as crystal. Sir 
W. Davenant, W. Strode, fy others. — as crystal glasses. J. Day. 
— as unspotted crystal. Pix. Purer than transparent crystal. 
J. Hervey. Pure as virgin crystal, or your spotless thought. 
Psyche, a Poem by J. Beaumont. Pure and white as Parian 
marble. A. Cowley. Purer than swans that drew the Queen 
of Love. Potter, in Poetical Calendar. Pure as Venus' doves, 
or mountain snow. A. Cowley. Pure and white as Erycina's 
doves. Ibid. — as ivory thrice polished by the skilful statuary. 
Milman. Pure and unspotted as the cleanly ermine ere the 
hunter sullies her with his pursuit. Sir W. Davenant. Pure 
as the crystal stream whose limpid tide reflects the flowers 
that paint its daisy 'd side. Poem, Sorrows of Love. — as the 
stream that pictures the sky as it flows. Ibid. No sparkling 
stream fresh from the rock was purer than her mind. A. Seward. 
Pure as the stream of ancient Simois. W. Browne. — as an un- 
tasted fountain. R. Shiel. — as the fountain in rocky cave, 



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where never sunbeam kissed the wave. Sir W. Scott. — as the 
fountain's limpid stream. Ode to Fancy. — as the stream that 
murmurs down the hill. T. Hogg. — as the waters of the moun- 
tain rill. C. Fox. 

Pure was her bosom as the silver lake, 

Ere rising winds the ruffled water shake ; 

When the bright pageants of the morning sky, 

Across th' expansive mirror lightly fly, 

By vernal gales in gay succession driven, 

While the clear glass reflects the smile of heaven. Hay ley. 
Pure as the mirror of the ocean's breast when Neptune's wand 
has soothed its waves to rest. Rome, a Poem. Pure as un- 
written papers. /. Ford. 

PURITY. Not the young roses in the bud secured, nor break- 
ing morn ungazed at by the sun, nor falling snow, has more of 
purity. Behn. 

PURPLE like the blush of even. W. Wordsworth. 

PURSUE me like a foe. Quarles. Pursue me like my shadow. 
A. Cherry. 



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UAKE like an aspen leaf. Chaucer, Sylvester, fy others. — like 
a trembling aspen leaf. G. Wilkins. — like aspen leaves in May. 
Sir W. Scott. — like trembling leaves that to the breezes shake. 
Hoole's Ariosto. — like dew stirred by the breeze. Wordsworth, 

QUARRELSOME as a surly justice, or a town rake. James 
Ralph. 

QUICK as thought. R. Waring, Dekher, 8$ others. Quicker 
than the agitation of thought, or the strictures of fancy. South. 
Quick as thy wishes, or my own desires. N. Lee. — as fancy. 
Richard Valpy. — as airy fancy flies. A. Selden. Fly quick as 
scandal. R. Bloomfield. Quick as intuition. South. — as sight. 









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Congreve. — as the eye can glance. Potter's Eschylus. — as the 
poet's eyes o'er nature fly, piercing the deep or traversing the 
sky. Hayley. — as light. Savage, R. Bloomfield. — as lightning. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher, South, 8$ others. — as a darted beam of 
light. Blachmore. — as descending rays of light. M. Pilkington. 
— as the darted beam. Mallet. Quick of spirit as the elec- 
tric beam when from the clouds its darting lightnings stream. 
A. Seward. — as the lightning's glance. Potter's Eschylus. 
Quick as the winged lightning let me fly. Play, Philoclea. — as 
flashing lightning. Duchess of Newcastle. — as the lightning's 
flash. Smollett, Thompson, fy others. — as lightning's rapid 
flight. Poem, Malcolm fy Alia. Quicker than the blue light- 
ning's flash. Play, Enchanted Wood. Quick as the lightning 
strikes. /. Sturmy. Quick thy stroke as lightning on the 
blasted oak. Jacob. — as the thunderbolt follows the lightning's 
flash. Play, Pizarro, by a North Briton. — as heaven's fan- 
tastic fire. Sir W. Davenant. — as bolted thunder. Play, Faith- 
ful General. — as the transient fire of Jove. Jane West. — as 
the morning ray, or evening beam. W. Thompson. — as a nim- 
ble hind. Browne. — as skipping roe. Ibid. — as a well winged 
shaft forth of a Parthian bow. Ibid. — as an arrow shot out of 
a bow. Arabian Nights Entertainments. — as an arrow from a 
bow. Play, Pizarro, by a North Briton. — as lightning flies 
winged with red anger through the skies. C. Churchill. Quick 
as sent by Jove, Iris descends on wings of love. C. Churchill. 
— as the eastern wind sweeps through a meadow. W. Browne. 
Quicker than winds swift whirring. Sylvester. — as a tempest. 
Extravagant Shepherd, an Anti-romance. — as the flowers are 
mown. Drydens Miscellany. — as a post which travels day and 
night. C. Churchill. 
QUIET as the unruffled ocean, when not the whisper of the 
gentlest zephyr fans its cerulean breast. W. Hodson. — as de- 
scending dews. W. S. Landor. — as the night. C. Phillips. — 
as the dead of night. Beaumont fy Fletcher, L. Sharp. — as 
midnight. D. Terry. — as halcyons brooding on a winter sea. 
Dryden. — as a child. Watts. — as an infant's sleep. Landon. — 

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as a nun breathless with adoration. Wordsworth. — as a lamb. 

Shakespear, Sidney, fy others. 

The soothing freshness of the vernal breeze, 

The lulling notes of dying harmony, 

The rapturous calm of good men's golden dreams, 

Bring not such balmy quiet to the soul, 

As thy sense-stealing softness. W. Hawkins. 

QUIVER like aspen leaves. Vatheh. — like a poor aspen tree. 
W. Hayley. — like a naked Russian in the snow. Sir W. Da- 
venant. 



R. 

IvADIANT as the sun. Play, Sir Giles Goosecap. — as the morn- 
ing sun. Sir W. Jones. More radiant than the sun at noon. 
G. Sandys. — than the summer's sun-beams. Herrich. Radi- 
ant as the morn. Metrical Miscellany. More radiant than the 
fairest morn. W. S. Landor. Not heaven's own beam when 
morning wakes, amid the misty skies with lovelier radiance 
breaks. Poem, Margaret of Anjou, by Miss Holford. Radiant 
as the star of day. Sir W. Jones. — as the star of eve. T. 
Maurice. — as the eye of noon. Quarles. — as the sun when he 
darts his last beams athwart the ocean. Vatheh, — as heaven's 
bow. W. Wordsworth. — as the bloom of day. W. Thompson. 
Radiant and fair as pure ethereal light. Robert Hurst. — as 
heaven's blest light when from a mist of clouds he peeps and 
gilds the earth with brightness. Glapthorne. — as the sparkling 
eye of youthful beauty. G. Townsend. — as snow. /. Wilson, 
author of Isle of Palms. — as dew. Ibid. 

RAGE like the sea. T. Heywood, Marlowe, fy others. — like the 
sea in a storm. Ossian. — like the troubled main. Gay. — like 
waves blown up by storms. Behn. Raging as the storm. 
Rome, a Poem. Loud and destructive as a storm he raged. 
Goring. Like a hurricane resistless rages, sweeps all away 



R A V 

and spreads a waste around.. B. Martyn. Raging mad as the 
wild sea when all the winds are up. Behn. Raging as the 
wind. T. Yalden, in Dryderis Miscellany. — as the northern 
wind. T. Carew. — as the furious North. Beaumont ty Fletcher. 
Rage like a chafed bull. Shakespear. Like an angry boar. 
Ibid. — like a bear pierced with a sudden arrow in his flank. 
Doyne's Tasso. 
RAGGED as a colt. Dry den, Foote. — as a young colt. P. Pin- 
dar. — as a courtier in disgrace. Somervile. 
RAISE our hearts as much above these present and sensible 

things as the heavens are high above the earth. Tillotson. 
RANK as a fox. Shakespear.— as any polecat. Jonson. 
RAPACIOUS as a vulture. Smollett. 

RAPID as the wind. Hooles Ariosto. — as the sweeping wind. 
Poem, Margaret of Anjou. — as a whirlwind. C. Churchill. — 
— as the gales that sweep the bending forest and convulse the 
deep. W. Richardson. — as lightning. H. Downing. More 
rapid than the lightning's flash. Aljieri , s Plays, by Charles 
Lloyd. Rapid and fatal as the lightning's flame. Ilderim, a 
Poem. — as electric flame shot from a summer cloud. Poem, 
Margaret of Anjou. — as the meteor's ray. A. Seward. — as the 
turbid stream that bursts from caverned hills its passage. 
Doyne's Tasso. — as the wing of time. John Hamilton. 

RARE as a phoenix. Shakespear, Francis Boothby. — as a black 
swan. R. Greene, Robert Stapylton, fy others. — like snow at 
Midsummer. /. Taylor. More rare than Indian pearl. James 
Howell. 

RASH as fire. Shakespear, Sandys. Rash and precipitate as 
fire. W. Dimond. — as Phaeton. S. Sheppard. — as the remorse- 
less wind. Poem, Margaret of Anjou. 

RATTLE like thunder. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. 

RAVE like a madman. H. Blair, fy others. 

RAVENOUS as lions. J. Taylor, Settle.— as the beast. Prior. 
— as the grave. Settle. 

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R A V 

RAVISHING like the music of the spheres. Carlell, Duchess 
of Newcastle. — as the returning sun to Greenland. Fielding. 

READY as birds to meet the morn. R. Bloomfield. The an- 
swer is as ready as a borrower's cap. Shakespear. 

REBELLIOUS like the sea. T. Heywood. 

RECOIL like a wave from a rock. Sir TV. Scott. — like the 
chaste Indian plant which shrinks and curls its bashful leaves 
at the approach of man. Sir TV. Davenant. Their malice, like 
an overcharged gun when fired, will forcibly recoil upon them- 
selves. Play ', The Revolution. 

RED as fire. Chaucer, Lidgate, fy others. Red as fire the war- 
rior blushed. Doyne's Tasso. Red as a firebrand. Southey. — 
as new enkindled fire. Shakespear. Red and hot as fire. 
Quarles. — as flame. Doyne's Tasso, Hoole's Ariosto. — as any 
coal. J. Taylor. — as the morning light. Chatterton. — as Titan's 
face. Shakespear. — as evening sky. Chatterton. — as summer 
evening sky. Ibid. — as sunset summer clouds which range the 
verge of heaven. Byron. — as the Arab gulf. Mirandola. — 
as Danae's lip. /. Grainger. — as rubies. Duchess of Newcastle, 
Randolph. — as a rose. Chaucer, Spenser, fy others. — as the 
blushing rose. Poole s Parnassus. — as a cherry. Jonson; Play, 
Psyche, § others. — as early cherries. Poole's Parnassus. — as a 
carrot. Frederick Pilon. — like crimson. Sacred Script. — as 
scarlet. Marlowe, Dekker, fy others. — as coral. Chaucer, Dave- 
nant, fy others. — as Eastern coral. Prior. — as blood. Sacred 
Script., Chaucer, fy others. 

REDDEN like the morning. M. Bruce. — like any scarlet rose. 
Settle. With rage I redden like scarlet. Gay. 

REDOLENT like to a field of beans when newly blown, or like 
a meadow lately mown. Herrick. 

REEL like a drunkard. Sacred Script., Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, fy 
others. — like a staggering drunkard. Watts. — like a tottering 
drunkard. Ibid. 



REL 

REFINED as purest gold. Judith Cowper. Refined and free as 
the ethereal air. Cibber. 

REFLECT as doth a crystal mirror in the sun. G. Peele. — like 
an object in a crystal mirror. Robert Greene. — like a polished 
mirror. Play, Villario. 

REFRESH like the zephyrs. A. Pasquin. Thy words like ge- 
nial showers to the parched earth, refresh my languid soul. 
Smollett. Refreshing as sleep. Play, Alarbas. Refreshing as 
the Zephyrus' wind. Duchess of Newcastle. — like the breath of 
Zephyrus in the spring season. /. Smith. — as the cold of snow 
in the time of harvest. Sacred Script. — as at summer's sultry 
hour, to sun-burnt pastures the reviving shower. Miss P or den. 
— as descending rains to sunburnt climes. B. Booth. — as the 
silent dews. Paraphrase on the Song of The Three Children. 
Not more refreshing are the dews of heaven to Araby's dry 
desert, than to me thy sight and wished return. Mallet. Re- 
fresh and enliven like the summer dew falling at even on some 
languid flower. The Highlanders, a Poem. — as the balm which 
evening's dewy star sheds on the drooping and fainting flower. 
P. Pindar. May it drop upon thee refreshing as mild dews 
on vernal flowers. Jephson. Not the soft breeze upon its fra- 
grant wings wafts such refreshing gladness to the heart of pant- 
ing pilgrims, as thy balmy words to my exhausted spirits. 
Smollett. Refreshing as the breeze that from the rose bears 
off the balmy fragrance on its wings. Play, Sulieman. — as the 
summer's breeze. Play, Momus turned Fabulist. 

REFULGENT as the sun. G. Townsend. — as the god of day. 
Pope. — like that orb of day when bathed in ocean he renews 
his ray. Preston's App. Rhodius. — as the morn. The Vestriad, 
a Poem. — as the morning star. Pope. 

REGARDLESS of his words as the deaf rocks when the loud 
billows roar. Dryden. 

RELENT like snow before the sun. Fawkes. 

RELENTLESS as the grave. Goring. — as a rock. Dryden. — 









REL 

— as the rocks and winds. C. Johnson. — as a flint. Play, Three 
English Brothers. — as the flood. Preston's App. Rhodius. — as 
a Mohawk. P. Pindar. 
RELIEVE. Tis you who only can afford relief, and like some 
fountain in the Arabian wild, yield comfort to the pilgrim's 
burning thirst. Author of The Times, a Poem. 

REMORSELESS as a storm. Shadwell. 

REPAY. Love like odorous Zephyr's grateful breath, repays 
the flower that sweetness which it borrows. Milton. 

REPENTANT as Magdalen. Wit's Commonwealth. 

REPLENISHED as the vestal's lasting fire. Oxford Sausage. 

REPUGNANT as water against fire. Barclay. 

REPULSE upon repulse, like waves thrown back that slide to 
hang upon obdurate rocks. Sir R. Howard. 

RESISTLESS as the blow of fate. W. Mavor.— as electric fire. 
Mickle. — as lightning. Higgons. — as the flash that strikes 
from heaven. Jephson. — as the wind. Pope, Poetical Calendar. 
Drive us on resistless as the sweeping whirlwind's force. 
Jephson. Resistless as the waves that roll o'er ocean's bed 
when loud the tempest roars. Poems, by the author of Alfred. 

RESOLVED as fate. Play, Faithful General. 

RESPLENDENT as the sun. Play, Belisarius, by Philips ; 
Thomas Hogg. — as the blaze of summer noon. Pope. — as the 
morning bright. Tatham. — as the heaven. /. Wilson, author of 
Isle of Palms. 

RESPONSIVE like a distant echo. Charles Brown. 

RESTLESS as the sun. Sir W. Davenant. — as the wind. Watts. 
— as the waves. W. Cowper. — as a flood brushed by the wind. 
Ibid. More restless than the sea. Duchess of Newcastle. — as 
those atoms be which the fierce winds subject unto their rule. 
/. Bancroft. — as a swallow in the skies. Byron. — as a cat in a 
cage. T. Hulcroft. — as a spaniel that has lost his master. 
Etherege.—as despair. Duffett. 



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RETIRE like waves blown back by sudden winds. Ossian. 
RETURN as certain as the night. Lillo. 

REVENGEFUL as a trodden snake. Dryden. — as some shep- 
herd that has spied a hissing serpent from his presence glide, 
whose venomed tooth his little son had slain. Hoole's Ariosto. 
Revengeful and implacable as hell. M. A. Meilan. 

REVERED as Patriarchs in primeval years. Garth. 

REVERENCE. Impute it not to fear but a religious awe, that 
dares not approach so much divinity but with a sacred prepa- 
ration, such as when the holy priest bows at the altar of in- 
censed deities. L. Sharp. 

REVIVE like the freshening dews of heaven. Play, The Spa- 
niards. Reviving as the cooling breeze. J. Hervey. 

REVOLVING as a ball. Barclay. 

RICH as Nature. Nabbs. — as a silver mine. Byron. Rich and 
free as open mines that teem their golden wealth upon the 
world. H. Brooke. Rich as the chambers of Golconda's 
mines. Rome, a Poem. Richer than are the wealthy mines 
found in the bowels of America. Play, Locrine. — than Peru- 
vian mines. E. Young. — than the Arab's untouched mines, or 
Indies are. Poole's Parnassus. Rich as Pactolus. Murphy, 
Hayley. — as bright Pactolus' streams. Play, Histriomastrix. 
as the ocean's womb. Play, Jack Drum's Entertainment. Rich 
with praise as is the ouze and bottom of the sea with sunken 
wreck. Shahespear. Rich in having such a jewel as twenty 
seas, if all their sand were pearl, the water nectar, and the 
rocks pure gold. Ibid. More rich than is the treasure hid 
in the unknown bottom of the sea. A. Brewer. — than the 
sea or land. T. Scott, in Dodsley's Collection. Rich as Da- 
nae's shower. Cumberland. — as Eden's happy ground. Watts. 
Rich and luxurious as the fruit of autumn, when ripened by 
the sun's indulgent warmth, it blushing yields resistless to the 
touch. /. Miller. — as Inde. Donne. More rich and gaudy 
than the East. Sir W. Davenant. More rich than Egypt with 



RID 

her flowing Nile. Play, Battle of Aughrim. — than the breast 
of Tempe. Play, Muleasses the Turk. — thanTagus' sands. T. 
Heywood. — than gold. ShaJcespear. More rich than pearls of 
Inde, or gold of Ophir. Spenser. — than hoarded piles of wor- 
shipped gold. Cumberland. Rich as a pearl. /. Ford. Richer 
in beauty than the orient pearl. Play, Taming of a Shrew. Rich 
as the leaves on Flora's crimson bed. Rome, a Poem. Richer 
clad than tulips in the spring. Fountain. — than robes of Tyrian 
dye that deck imperial majesty. Southey. Rich as Croesus. 
Paradise of dainty Devices, R. Head, fy others. — as a Jew. 
Gay, Foote, $ others. — as a Rabbi. G. Colman. 

RIDICULOUS as a gigantic coward. Wycherley. — as gold lace 
on a frieze coat. R. B. Sheridan. — as fools. Congreve. It 
would be as ridiculous as the owl's pairing with the sprightly 
lark. W. Heard. 

RIGHT as any line. Lidgate. — as my leg. Duffett, Durfey, 8$ 
others. — as my nail. Play, Mock Doctor. — as my glove. Sir 
W. Scott. 

RIGHTEOUS as a saint. E. Ward. 

RIGID as Jove's inexorable nod. /. H. Stevenson, 

RIPE as harvest. Jonson. Ripe and rich as the autumn. Field- 
ing, Dryden's Miscellany, fy others. Ripe, calm, and fresh as 
Eastern summers are. Sir W, Davenant. Ripe and inviting 
as a gushing grape. C. Burnaby. — as a cherry. C, Gibber, 
S. Foote. — as a pear. Shepherd's Lottery, 

RISE like exhalations. Pope, Sir W. Scott, ty others. — like a 
mist. Southey. — like the morning mist. Pope, Dryden. Rise 
as constantly as summer dews at eve. H. H. Milman, Rise 
from the earth like feathered Mercury. ShaJcespear. Rise 
proudly as the sun. Jonson. Rise up like a flood. Sacred 
Script. — like the swelling of the tide. Watts. Rise and fall 
like waves blown up by gentle winds. Ravenscroft. Rising 
and falling like a winter gust. Play, Porsenna's Invasion. He 
rose perpendicular like a pyramid of fire. Fool of Quality, 



ROU 

HOAR like thunder. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Dryden, $ others. — 
like a tempest. Durfey. — like the sea. Sacred Script., Dur- 
fey, fy others. — like winds when they pursue the flying waves 
to shore. Howard fy Dryden 's Indian Queen. — like billows 
when they lash the rocky shore. Preston s App. Rhodius. 
Roar as loud as Neptune. Jonson. — as Stentor. Swift. — like a 
lion. Sacred Script., E. Young. — like a lion catched within 
the toil. Bancroft, — like a gorged lion o'er his mangled prey. 
Milman. — like angry lions in the midnight hour. Broome. — 
like bears. Sacred Script. — like a bull. Colman. Roar and 
bellow like a parish bull. T. Heywood. 

ROLL like waves. Doyne's Tasso. — like waves before the wind. 
Byron. Rolling like an ocean. Pollok. — like a mighty stream. 
Watts. — like a rapid stream along. Lloyd on Churchill. Roll 
away like mist. Sir W. Scott. Roll away like wreaths of mist. 
Ossian. — like mist before the rushing breath of the tempest. 
Ibid. — like a wreath of smoke. Ibid. — like a ship in a storm. 
Play, Amorous Old Woman. 

ROSY as a cherubin. Mrs. Rowe's Letters. Cheeks, more rosy 
than the morning's face. Fountain. Rosy as rising morn. 
Southey. More rosy than the morning dawn. Durfey. 

ROTTEN as a pear. Gay, Stevenson, fy others. 
ROVE like the bee. Gay, Joseph Mitchell. 

ROUGH as northern tempests. Play, Jeronimo. — as a storm. 
Ravenscroft, Dryden. — as autumn storms. Play, Faithful Gene- 
ral. — as the wintry storm that ploughs the deep. C. Johnson. 
Rougher than the northern wind. P. Hausted; Play, King 
John. Rough as the winds, and as inconstant too. Otway. — 
as the rude wind that by the top doth take the mountain pine, 
and make him stoop to the vale. Shakespear. Rougher than 
the rudest of the winds. Dennis. Rough as the wintry wave 
that roars on Thule's desert shores. Penrose. — as waves 
and wind. Prior. — as the sea. Otway, Duke, 8$ others. — as 
the Adriatic sea. Herrick. — as are the swelling Adriatic seas. 
Shakespear. The raging sea disturbed with furious wind, is 



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not so rough as thy tempestuous mind. J. Banks. Rough as 
winds or seas. Jenyns. — as the rocks. Preston's App. Rhodius. 
— as Albion's rocks. W. Wilkie. Rough and rugged like to the 
summer's corn, by tempest lodged. Shakespear. — as a satyr. 
G. Canning. — as a bear. Lidgate, E. Ward, 8$ others. Rough 
and impetuous as a wild boar. Sir W. Scott. — as a water 
spaniel. Cumberland. — as hair of any goat. Play, Jacob fy 
Esau. — as a frieze jerkin. C. Butler. — as cloth of hair. E. 
Ward. — as a bur. Dryden. — as maple rind. Spenser. — as wild 
myrtle. Adams, in Dryden 's Miscellany. — as a nutmeg-grater. 
H. Higden, A. Hill, § others. 
ROUND as a ball. Lidgate, Greene, fy others. — as a globe. 
Suckling, Dryden, <$• others. — as a hoop. Plays, Bloody Duke, 
Abdicated Prince, 8$ others. — as a ring. Beaumont § Fletcher, 
A. Cowley. — as the moon at full. Chapman. — as a full moon. 
T. Walker. — as an apple. Chaucer, P. Pindar. Round and 
red as a cherry. J. Wilson ; Play, Cymon. 

ROUZE like a lion out of sleep. Tillotson. 

ROYAL as a lion. Chaucer. 

RUDDY as rubies. Sacred Script. — as the red rose. L. Wager. 
— as the bud of the rose. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. — as 
the cherry. J. Skelton, Gay. — as the full-cheeked morn. Play, 
General Cashiered. 

RUDE as a bear. Mrs. Griffith. Rude and untamed as a wild 
mountain roe. Play, Alarbas. Rude as a colt. E. Ward. — 
as clowns that break the clod. Polwhele's Theocritus. — as the 
bestial herd. Mickle's Lusiad. Ruder than March winds. Tobin. 

RUGGED as burs. /. Heywood. — as a bear. Cumberland. — as 
the wolf, or bear. Thurlow. 

RUMINATE like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her 
brain. Shakespear. 

RUN like the lightnings. Sacred Script. Run our race like the 
sun. Edward Burt. Rapidly as comets run. T.Moore. Run 
like a frighted coward whose foes are at his heels. P. Francis. 



SAD 

RUSH like a torrent. John Home, G. E. Howard. — like a fiery- 
torrent. Pope. These thoughts rushed through his mind like 
a torrent. Sir W. Scott. Rush like a flood. Preston s App. 
Rhodius. Rush onward like a winter flood. P. Francis. — like 
lightning. E. Young. — like a mighty wind. Cumberland. — 
like a whirlwind. S. Bamford. Rush on like a storm. Frag- 
ments of Ancient Poetry. — like a mighty stream. Dry den. 
Rush like the rushing of many waters. Sacred Script. Rush 
on his host as doth the^melted snows upon the valleys. Shake- 
spear. Rush in upon society like a torrent or inundation with 
a furious storm driving it on. South. Rushing in upon the 
soul like the fluctus decumanus upon the labouring ship or 
vessel, which always gives it the greatest and most dangerous 
shock. Ibid. Like two conflicting clouds pregnant with thun- 
der, rushed the hostile hosts. Southey. 

RUSTLE like leaves. Byron. Rustling sound, like the voice 
of a summer breeze when it lifts the heads of flowers and curls 
the lakes and streams. Ossian. Rustling like a shower. /. Wil- 
son, author of Isle of Palms. 

RUTHLESS as the savage of the wood. N. Rowe. — as the hard- 
ened rock. Drayton. 



S. 

OABLE. More sable than death. Quarles. Sable and glossy 
as the raven's wing. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. 

SACRED as truth. Dr. Johnson. — as the tear shed for others' 
pain. Byron. — as the shrines of saints. L. Theobald. — as the 
pious saint that attends the altar. Dilke. — as the vestal fire. 
W. Broome. Sacred and lasting as the fire of the Roman 
vestals. Play, Gentleman Cully. Sacred to me as are oracles. 
Play, Bastard. — as message from an angel's tongue. Thomas 
Trotter. 

SAD as night. B. Thompson. — as deepest night. Otway. A face 



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as sad as grief could paint. Quarles. Sad as tears. Poetical 
Album. — as death. Blackmore; Play, All Vows Kept. Sad 
and speechless as a ghost. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. Sad 
like the sun in the day of mist, when his face is watery and 
dim. Ossian. Sad as the nightingale's melodious woe in gentle 
even-tide, when west winds shake the new blown roses from 
their balmy wings ; all night she sings the absence of her 
mate. W. Thompson. She comes like silver Cynthia sullied 
o'er with clouds, majestically sad. James Ralph. Sad and 
mourning like a virgin at her lover's tomb. Sir W. Davenant. 
Sad as the childless Rachel. Rome, a Poem. 

SAFE as in a tower, or hold. Harington. — as in a tower of brass. 
Beaumont 8$ Fletcher, Sir W. Davenant. — as in a fort of brass. 
Play, Hector of Germany. — as in a sanctuary. Spenser. — as a 
sanctuary. Landon. — as innocence. Lillo. 

SAGE as Solon. Hayley, on Sir W. Jones. 

SALT. Tears, salt as the sea. Shakespear. 

SAVAGE as ocean in a storm. C. Churchill. More savage than 
the storm that howls on Thule's shore. Smollett. — than the 
howl of midnight wolves. Southey. Savage as the Hyrcanian 
tiger. T. Cooke. 

SCALD like molten lead. Shakespear. 

SCATTER them as northern winds disperse the leaves in au- 
tumn. /. Tatham. Scattered like autumn leaves before a 
northern wind. Play, Wars of Cyrus. — like the lofty cedar- 
trees struck with the voice of thundering Jupiter. Marlowe. 
Scatter them as wolves a flock of sheep. Sir W. Lower. Scat- 
ter them abroad like a storm. T. Heywood. — like the storm of 
the desert. Ossian. — like a stormy wind. Ibid. Scattered like 
the Libyan sands before the wind. Glover. Scatter them as 
whirlwinds strew the dust. /. Tobin. Scatter his army like 
the wind-driven sands. A. Hill. Like the golden-footed morn, 
scatter abroad the cheering beam of light. C. Emily. 

SCENT like a hound. Goldsmith. 



SEN 

SCORCH like a fiery brand. Sir W. Scott. 

SCORNFUL as upstarts that are newly raised. T. Shipman. 

SCREAM like an eagle whose nest has been plundered of her 
brood. Sir W.Scott. 

SCULK like the owl before the sun's golden ray. R. Baron. 

SEASONABLE as clouds of rain in the time of drought. Ec- 
clesiasticus. 

SECOND me as inseparably as a condition does an obligation. 
Play, Honest Lawyer. 

SECRET as death. A. Hill. — as the grave. Otway, H. Boyd, $ 
others. — as the centre. Cumberland. — as darkness. T. Scott. 
— as the night. Jonson, J. Shirley, fy others. — as everlasting 
night. Behn. — as thought. Play, Mock Duellist; Ralph, fy 
others. — as your soul. J. Webster. — as lonely shades. Behn. 
— as men would keep their sins from the world's eye. Play, 
Valiant Welshman. — as misers' hidden treasures. A. Portal. 
— as a dumb man. Shakespear. — as a fish. O'Keeffe. 

SECURE as pious votaries that knew they were forgiven ere 
they died. Sir W. Davenant. 

SEDATE as curious thought. Savage. — as the closing day. J. 

Hervey. 
SEDUCING as hope. Pasquin. 

SEIZE as sharply as Jove's eagle did snatch up Ganymede. 
Marmion. Seize his prey like a ravening vulture. Delap. 

SENSELESS as a rock. Doyne's Tasso. — as stones. T. Hey- 
mood. — as a statue. T. Dilke. — as a block. Spenser, in England's 
Parnassus ; PasquiVs Nightcap. — as a log. /. Taylor. — as a 
law would be which should enjoin that shoes for all mankind 
should be made upon one and the same last. Tillotson. 

SENSIBLE. Its feeling is more soft and sensible than are the 
tender horns of cockled snails. Shahespear. 

SENSUAL as swine. Otway. 



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SERENE as peace. A. Hill, Howard. — as innocence, or peace. 
Jane Wiseman. — as hope. Mallet. — as the good man's breast. 
B. Hoole. — as light. Hughes, Watts. — as heaven's unsullied 
light. Ogilvie. — as cloudless skies. Ibid. — as Eden's cloudless 
sky. C. Fox. Heart, serene as a sky untinged with cloud. 
Author of The Times, a Poem. Serene as heaven above the 
clouds. Dry den. — as spring- tide morn. Hall Hartson. — as 
when fresh .morning smiles upon the world. Milton. Serene 
and modest as the morn. C. Cotton. Serene as a calm sum- 
mer's day. Sturm. — as airs that fan the summer. Akenside. 
Serene and calm as the still air, when scarce a breeze is found 
to spread its wings. A. Bushe. Serene as night. J. Wilson, 
author of Isle of Palms. Like placid summer's eve serene. 
Ogilvie. Serene as summer skies. William Ashbumham. — as 
summer's evening skies. Falconer. 

Serene as Cynthia through the fields of air, 
Queen of the night, extends her cloudless ray, 
When all the forests tremble to the gleam, 
And the transparent seas reflect the silver beam. 

Supplement to Dodsleifs Collection. 
SERIOUS as death. E. Young. — as night. Byron. 
SEVERE as truth. Savage. — as law. South. — as philosophy. 

Ibid. More severe than storms. Broome. 
SHADY as night. W. Wordsworth. 
SHAGGED and rough as is a bear. George Wyther. 

SHAKE like an aspen leaf. Lidgate, A. Selden, fy others. — like 
a leaf. S. T. Coleridge. — like a reed. Byron. — like a reed 
when ruffled by the storm. J. Bird. — like a field of beaten 
corn. Shakespear. — like leaves of corn when tempests blow. 
Dryden. Shake the air like thunder. Sheffield Duke of Buck- 
ingham. — like a felon before the bench. Quarles. — like a spied 
spy. Donne. Shake thee from me like a serpent. Shakespear. 
Shake him like an earthquake. Dryden, A. Hill. 

SHARP as fire. Chaucer. — as light. R.Burns. — as thin air. 
Caledonia, a Poem. — as Lynceus' sight. Gascoigne.- — as a vi- 



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per's tooth. Play, Riches. Sharper than a serpent's tooth. 
iShakcspear. — than the stings of death. F. Reynolds. Sharp 
as a razor. /. Shirley, Denham, 8$ others. That word is to me 
sharper than a razor's blade. Play, Jacob fy Esau. Its edge 
is sharper than the sword. Shakespear. Sharp as swords. 
Play, Pathomachia ; E. Ward, 8$ others. — as a two-edged 
sword. Sacred Script. — as knives. Sylvester. — as scythes. 
Dry den's Miscellany, Andrew Marvel. — as a needle. Duchess 
of Newcastle, C. Shadwell, fy others. She hath a wit sharp 
as her needle. T. Heywood. Sharp as pointed steel. Owen 
M'Swiney. — as boars' tushes. Play, Royal Flight. — as thistles. 
Dryden. — as a briar. Chaucer, G. Sandys. — as a winter morn- 
ing. Dryden' s Miscellany. A stomach as sharp as a shark's. 
Foote. Sharp as hawks. E. Ward, P. Pindar. — as the looks 
of a hawk. E.Ward. Eyes, sharp as eagles'. Dryden. Sharp- 
sighted, as the eagle's eye can outstare the broad beamed day's 
meridian. R. Crashaw. Sharp as spear, or lance. Lidgate. 
Sharper than sun-beams. J. Webster. He is as sharp as a 
frosty morning. Durfey. 

SHED silently as a gentle dew. T. K. Hervey. Her eyes shed 
lustre like the morning star. John Bartholomew. 

Blessings, as rich and fragrant, crown your heads, 

As the mild heav'n on roses sheds, 

When at their cheeks like pearls they wear 

The clouds that court them in a tear. H. Vaughan. 

SHELTER it as a mother guards her child. Cornwall. 

SHIFTING and changeful as the flitting breeze. Play, Indians. 

SHINE as the sun. Sacred Script., Gower, fy others. — as doth 
the mid-day sun. Lidgate, J. Taylor. — as Phoebus. G. Peele. 
— as Phoebus in his sphere. Lidgate. Shine clearer than the 
sun. J. Gough. Shine clear and bright as the sun. Lidgate. 
Shining brighter than the sun in its splendour. Edward Burt. 
Shine like the beam of the ascending sun, when he disperses 
the storms of the hill, and brings peace to the glittering fields. 
Ossian. His fame shone like the sun-beam. Lidgate. Shining 



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like sun-rays. Spenser. — like Phoebus' glist'ring rays. Lidgate. 
Shine bright and clear like Phcebus shining in his mid-day 
sphere. Ibid. — like the lamp of heaven. A. Cowley. Shine in 
tears like the sun in April. C. Turner. — like the sun upon 
the morning mists. Southey. Her angel's face as the great 
eye of heaven shined bright. Spenser. Shine as stars. Sacred 
Script., Lidgate, J. Shirley, Sf others. Shine clear and bright 
as any star. Lidgate. — as the morning star. Spenser. Shine 
like a celestial star resplendent through the gloom that shoots 
afar the silver shafts serenely bright and fair. Preston's App. 
Rhodius. — like twinkling stars. Spe?iser. She like the dewy 
star of evening shone in tears. Thomson. Shine more bright 
than twinkling stars do in a winter's night. Play, Wily Be- 
guiled. Shine as bright as the sky in a frosty night. Play, 
Intriguing Widow. Shine splendid as the stars of heaven. 
M. A. Meilan. Shine as bright as stars by night. Durfey. 
Shine like the fixed stars with beams of glory that shall last 
for ever. N. Lee. As the fixed stars still let it shine resplen- 
dent, calm and unmoved, amidst the world's fierce tempests. 
Play, Themistocles. Shine as bright as all the lamps that 
beautify the sky. Marlowe. Shine in radiance like the star, 
whose light cheers the sullen brow of night. A. S. Cottle's 
Icelandic Poetry. — like a blazing star. Duchess of Newcastle. 
— like a volume of bright constellations. /. Shirley. Her eyes, 
like Ariadne's sparkling stars, shone from the ebon arches of 
her brows. R. Greene. Shine glorious as day. E. Ward. 
Shine as noon-day clear. Blackmore. — as Titan. Spenser. — 
like the beams of Titan sporting on the lucid waves. J. G. 
Cooper. — as morning after night. Sylvester. Shine as beau- 
teous as the rising day. Poems, Sylvce. — like the morning 
lamp that tells Aurora when her love will come. Play, Look- 
ing-Glass. — like Aurora in her rich attire when she Hyperion 
would fain caress. W. Thompson. — like the blushing morning. 
Sir P. Sidney. — like the morning's blush. Play, King John. 
— like the lustre of the dewy morn. T. Day. Like dewy 
morn she shone in tears. W. Thompson. Shine like- the glory 



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of the morning sky. Quarks. Shine bright as the moon 
amongst the lesser lights. Jonson. — like Hesperus among the 
lesser lights. Spenser, — like Luna. T. Meriton. — as Cynthia 
'mid the nightly host. Sylvester. Shine above the rest as 
Cynthia does amongst her starry train. Banks. Shine like 
moonlight sparkling on a silver stream. Sir W. Jones. — like 
the golden star of Love. Akenside. — like the crystal lamps of 
heaven. Play, Friar Bacon. — like light. Harington's Epi- 
grams, Landon. — like the light of heaven. Cornwall. — like 
to the heaven's rich sparkling light. R. Greene. — as the bright- 
ness of the firmament. Sacred Script. Shine bright as light- 
ning. Mickle's Lusiad. — like a fire. J. Shirley. Shine bright 
as fire. Ibid. — like flaming fire. Doyne's Tasso. — like a flame 
on the heath at night. Ossian. — like glowing flame. Hoole's 
Ariosto. — as lambent flame. Mickle's Lusiad. Shine reful- 
gent as a meteor. Miss Porden. Shine like humid vapours 
in a flame. E. Ward. Shining like dew. Landon. Shine like 
dew-drops in the morning sun. M. R. Mitford. Shine bright 
as in drops of dew the sun's reflected beam. Sotheby's Oberon. 
— like snow at sunrise on the mountain's crest. Montgomery. 
— like diamonds. Chapman, E. Ward. — like a gem. Banks. — 
like a gem enchased in gold. Dryden. — like a gem of purest 
light, or midnight stars that brightly flash through the light 
clouds that veil the night. M. A. Browne. There, light shall 
shine as mild as virgin pearls. T. Heming. Shine like rubies 
glittering with the sun. Play, Locrine. — like the carbuncle. 
Harington, Donne. — like crystal. Jasper Heywood. — like glass. 
Weber's Old Metrical Romances, Spenser, fy others. Shine 
like gold. Sir Thomas Wyatt. Shining as gold bright. Bar- 
clay. — like burnished gold. Chaucer. Far shining beyond 
fine gold of Araby. Interlude, Melebea. Shine like snow-white 
lilies in a fresh green pasture. Sylvester. Shine round her 
like a glory. Dryden. Like angels robed with light, all-glo- 
rious shine. Sturmy. Shine like a beau in a new birth-day 
suit. Fielding. Shine as beauteous and as bright as she who 
sprang from ocean's foam to light. /. Bird. I shall shine as 

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bright in Rome as Apollo himself in his temple at Delphos. 
T. Heywood. Her hair was like the shine of Apollo when 
shaking his glorious tresses he makes the world beauteous with 
his brightness. Greene's Tully's Love. Shine as bright as that 
fair veil that covers all the world when Phoebus leaping from 
his hemisphere descendeth downward to the Antipodes. Mar- 
lowe. Shine like a meteor. Milton. — like the radiant bow of 
heaven when the fiery rays of the setting sun brighten its 
varied sides. Ossian. Shine like the painted bow in April's 
shower. Rome, a Poem. Shining, smooth, and black as jet. 
C. Cotton. Shine like glow-worms in the dark. E. Moore. 

SHOOT like lightning. Pope. — like a falling star. G. Sandys, 
Addison. — like a star through the benighted sky. Dryden. 
Shoot through the air as nimbly as a star. Jonson. — like a 
meteor. Hodson, Sir TV. Scott. — like a falling meteor. Miss 
Porden. — like a blazing meteor hence he shot, and drew a 
sweeping fiery train along. Play, Duke of Guise. Like a swift 
arrow shot the foaming stream. Landon. Shot like an arrow 
from the land. M. A. Browne. Shoot like an eagle from his 
cliff down to the fearful gulf. Joanna Baillie. 

SHORT as momentary breath. Armin. — as a dream. ShaJcespear. 
Short and vain as joys but dreamed of, or as sick men's slum- 
bers. Otway. — as a gleam of transient sunshine. /. Hervey. 
Shorter than a span. Ibid. — as a summer's night. Hughes. 
— as St. Thomas's day. Colman. 

SHORT-LIVED as the morning dew. Sacred Script. — as the 
glory of the blushing rose. Ibid. 

SHOWER his bounties on me like the Hours, that open-handed 
sit upon the clouds, and press the liberality of heaven down 
to the laps of thankful men. Jonson. 

SHRIEK loud like seamen split on a strange coast. Sir TV. Da- 
venant. Shriek as one who treads upon a viper in his heed- 
less path. Southey. 

SHRILL as a thrush upon a morn of May. TV. Browne. A 
trump more shrill than Triton's is at sea. G. Peele. 



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SHRINK as from an asp. Byron. Shrink as from a serpent in 
a knot of flowers. Milman. Shrink from the touch like the 
sensitive plant. Akenside. — like the Indian flower which creeps 
within its folded leaves when it is touched. Sir TV. Davenant. 
— like a rose before the mid-day sun. Thomson. — like violets 
in the summer's ray. T. Moore. — like flowers beneath the 
scorching of the south wind's breath. Ibid.— like a leaf of 
autumn which the sun has scorched ere yet in green maturity. 
Cornwall. Shrink away as the shadow of the clouds departs 
before the conquering sun-beams. Ibid. — like a bladder in the 
fire. Sir TV. Davenant. — like parchment in the fire. E. Eccle- 
stone. — like parchment in consuming flame. Dry den. Shrink 
as if blasted by a flash of lightning. Sir TV. Scott. At which 
fair nature like a snail shrunk back. R. Davenport. 

SHUN thee as the pestilence. T. Hey wood. — shunned like a 
pestilence. Middleton, Gay. — like a plague. C. Churchill. — 
like a plague-spot. Liberal. Shunned and dreaded like a 
walking pest. South. Shun me as she would infection. Pix. 
Why am I shunned as if I were infection? Theobald. Shunned 
as a ghost. N. Lee. Shun him as a sailor shuns the rocks. 
Dryden. Shun it like a destroying rock. Lower. Shun 
him as they will shun a basilisk. /. Taylor. Shun thee as thou 
wert a basilisk. Theobald. Shun it as the eye of a basilisk. 
TV. T. Moncrieff. Shun me as a serpent's sting. Play, King 
John. Shun me worse than fire. Banks. Shun the light like 
bats. Edward Burt. 

SHY as the fawn. A. Philips. — as vestals. Play, Alarbas. — as 
a ring-dove. M. R. Mitford. 

SICK as death. Farquhar. — as a dog. Jago. 

SIGH like the wind in the cleft of a rock. Ossian. 

SILENT as thought. South, Sir TV. Davenant. — as the foot of 
time. A. L. Barbauld. — as the motion of the air. Behn. — as 
death. Play, The Counterfeits ; E. Moore, 8$ others. Silence 
deep as death. Campbell. Silent and motionless as death. 
J. H. Stevenson. — as the grave. R. Mead, C. Davenant, ty 
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others. — as the sepulchre. R. Shiel. — as the tomb. /. Bird. — 
as the house of sleep. Poole s Parnassus. Silently as a dream. 
W. Conner. — as a healthy sleep. Behn. Silent and slow like 
ghosts they glide. Sir W. Scott. — as a ghost. Byron. — as deep 
streams. Montgomery. — as a standing pool. TV. Wordsworth. 
— as growth of flowers. Behn. — as the moon. J. Shirley, 
Milton. — as the moon when she deserts the night hid in her 
vacant interlunar cave. Milton. — as Pythagoras. Pope. Si- 
lent and sullen like some captive queen. Edinburgh Collection. 
Silent and sad as a bird newly caught. Poetical Calendar. — 
as a bagpipe without wind. T. Holcrqft. — as your shade. 
Cibber. Silent in shade as chaos lay before the winds were 
made. Sir TV. Davenant. — as the night. Carew, Sir TV. Da- 
venant, fy others.. — as the depth of night. Montgomery. — as 
midnight. Shenstone. — as the midnight hour. Play, Alfred. 
Silent and viewless as the midnight air. C. A. Elton. — as the 
noon of night. Smollett. Silent and hushed as midnight shade. 
Blackmore. Night nor sleep is not more silent. Green's Tu 
quoque. Silent as nature, when locked fast in sleep. aS*. Boyse. 
As silent as the day gives way to night. Banks. Bedewed 
and silent as a summer's night. TV. Penkethman. Silent as 
falling dews. Akenside, Milnian. — as the fall of evening dews. 
Mrs. Rome. Went abroad with foot as silent as the starry 
dews. Pollok. Fall as silently as dew. J. Leanerd. Fall si- 
lently like dew on roses. Dry den. Tears falling from her eyes 
as silently as dew in dead of night. Dryden. — as snow falls on 
the earth. Byron. — as falling snow. Play, King Saul. — as 
rocks. /. Shirley. — as a tomb-stone. A. Cherry. — as a statue. 
Play, Charles the First. Silent and motionless as a statue. 
Play, Insignificant s, by Bacon. — as a dormouse. Sir W. Da- 
venant, Shadwell, § others. Silent awhile he stood, as the 
dead calm before the thunder rolls. TV. Whitehead. Silent I 
stood, as I were thunderstruck. Dryden. I will sit as silent 
as the god of sleep. Sir W. Killigrew. 
SIMPLE as truth's fair handmaid, Nature. Cawthorn. — as a sheep. 
Lilly. — as simple sheep. Spenser. — as dove on tree. Chaucer. 



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SINCERE as truth. Mallet — as a saint's dying prayer. R. Burns. 
— as holy hermits' vows. Sir W. Davenant. — as the chaste vows 
of holy vestals. Otway. Vows, sincere and lasting as the 
bonds which make our souls, our bodies, and our interests one. 
Oldmixon. 

SING like a nightingale. Play, Wit of Woman; Sir W. Davenant, 
8$ others. Sing as sweetly as a nightingale. Shakespear. Now 
thou singest sweetly in a far more mellifluous tone than quires 
of nightingales. Play, Charles the First. Sing as sweet as 
evening Philomel. Pope. — like Philomela. Earl of Orrery. 
— like a lark. Jonson. Sing delightfully like a sky-lark. Farce, 
Who is Afraid ? 

The lark when blest with liberty and ease, 

Soars to the orient sky on morning's breeze, 

In dew ambrosial bathes his speckled wings, 

And pois'd in azure heaven, melodious sings. Rome, a Poem. 

SINK like the murmurs of a falling wind. N. Rowe. Sink under 
it like the vine under the hail-storm. Sir W. Scott. — like lead. 
Parnell. 

SIT UP all night like a watching candle. Tomkis, Centlivre. 

SKIP like grasshoppers. P. Pindar. 

SKITTISH as unbacked colts. Play, Counterfeit Bridegroom. 

SLEEK as polished ivory. Drayton. — as satin. Carew ; Play, 
Spanish Bawd. Sleek and even as the seas in the more still 
and calmest halcyon days. Drayton. More sleek than the 
downy swan's neck. Poetical Calendar. — than cygnet's plush. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher. Sleek as jelly. J. Ford. More sleek 
and smooth than a cockle-shell that is washed and worn by the 
sea. A. Fraunce. More sleek than orient shells. C. Lennox. 

SLEEP like careless infancy. Sir W. Scott. Sleep as sound as 
careless infancy. Shakespear. Sleep like a top. C. Cibher. 
Sleep as sound as a top. Mrs. Manley, Gay. Sleepy as a 
gibbed cat. /. Wilson. 

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SLIPPERY as ice. Landon. — as an eel. Play, Knave in Grain; 

Marmion, fy others. 
SLOW as a snail. Paradise of Dainty Devices, Sir TV. Davenant, 

fy others, — as an elephant. Shakespear. — as tortoises. Virgin 

of the Sun, from Kotzebue. 

SLOWLY as on summer eves violets fold their dusky leaves. 

Mr W. Scott. 
SLUMBER like an unweaned child. Byron. Slumbers, soft 

and gentle as infants' dreams. Dry den. 

SMALL as atoms. Jonson, Massinger, fy others. — as winter's 
snow, or summer's atoms. T. Heywood. Smaller than a grain. 
Prior. Small as the minutest grain which the eye can scarce 
discern. J.Hervey. — as a particle of light. W.Paley. Smaller 
than the autumn dust tost by the warring winds. T. Heywood. 

SMILE like an infant in an angel's bosom. Settle. Smiling like 
infant innocence. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. So rises 
««, the blushing morn as thou wert wont to smile. Play, Fatal 
Union. Smiling like the new-born morning. Play, Gonzanga. 
Smiling smoothly like to summer's day. Spenser. Smiling 
as May. Richard Cceur de Lion, Comic Opera. Like the 
blooming May. P. Pindar. — like a May morning, when Phoe- 
bus starts from Thetis' lap. Ramsay. — like Eden in its sum- 
mer dress. Sir TV, Scott. 

SMITE deadlier than the voice of Heaven. G. Peele. 

SMOOTH as calmest seas. Settle. — as summer seas. C.Churchill, 
Byron. — as summer seas, when kissed by southern winds just 
ready to expire. R. Blair. — as a peaceful sea which never 
rolls. Dryden. — as the sea in a calm. Centlivre. — as the green 
ocean in a silent calm. L. Machin. — as waters be when no 
breath troubles them. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as waters be 
when in a calm. Duchess of Newcastle. — as calmest waters. 
Doyne's Tasso. — as the calmed waves. Fanshaw. Waves, 
smooth as when the halcyon builds her nest. Browne. 
Smooth as the unwrinkled deep when all the winds are 
in their caves asleep. Ramsay. Smooth as the face of wa- 



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ters first appeared, ere tides began to strive, or winds 
were heard. Sir W. Davenant. — as gliding streams in sum- 
mer brooks. /. Leanerd. — as the gliding stream. Ossian, 
Spanish Lady, Musical Entertainment. — as Meander's crystal 
mirrors flow. Madan on Pope. — as a mill-pond. Cumberland. 
— as gently breathing gales. A. Philips. Smooth and placid 
as the spring. W. Woty, in Poetical Calendar. Smooth as 
heaven's face. H. Vaughan. — as glass. Spenser, Sylvester, fy 
others. — as looking-glass. Sir P. Sidney. — as a mirror. Southey. 
— as a polished mirror. G. Canning. — as ice. Sylvester, T. 
Heywood. — as crystal ice. T. Lodge. Smooth and clear as 
crystal. Carew. — as polished crystal. Play, Cupid's Whirligig. 
— as Parian marble. Somervile. — as the polished marble. 
Poole's Parnassus, Ramsay. — as polished stone. F. Hoyland, 
6r„ E. Howard. — as sleekest Parian stone. Poole's Parnassus. — 
as monumental alabaster. Shakespear. — as porphyry. J. Day, 
Parliament of Bees. — as jet. Lilly, Herrick. — as polished jet. 
Albion's England, by W. Warner. — as ivory. Harington, R. 
Baron, ty others. — as polished ivory. Harington ; Play, King 
Charles the First. — as the elephant's new polished tooth. E. 
Sherburne. — as Cupid's ivory bow. Durfey. — as Pelops' shoul- 
der. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as ebony. W. Walker. — as po- 
lished ebony. Behn. — as the surface of well polished brass. 
Poetical Calendar. — as oil. Sacred Script., Shakespear, fy 
others. — as butter. Sacred Script., Jonson. Smoother than 
cream. Jonson. Smooth as wax. Shakespear. — as amber. C. 
Churchill — as pearl. Garth. Smooth and soft as ermine. 
/. Shirley. Smooth, soft, and white as the purest ermine. 
Durfey. — as silk. Gascoigne, Dryden. — as velvet. /. Day. — 
as new satin. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as youth. Durfey ; Play, 
Unequal Match. — as Diana's lip. Shakespear. Diana's lip 
is not more smooth and rubeous. Poole's Parnassus. Smooth 
as Hebe's lip. Milton. — as flattery. A. Hill. — as Love's brow. 
Sir W. Davenant. — as the brow of Pallas. R. Shiel. Brows, 
smooth as virgins' be. Poole s Parnassus. Smooth as Venus' 
dove. F. Beaumont, Durfey. — as down. M. Pilkington. — as 



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the down on the dove. J. G. Cooper. — as the shining down on 
the fledged cygnet's glossy chest. Jane West. — as the raven's 
feather. Randolph. Smoother than lilies. Duffett. Smooth 
as rushes. T. Killigrew. — as the mermaid's song. J.Ford. 
— as platters. J ago. 

SMUTTY as blacksmiths. P. Pindar. 

SNARL and bark like a dog. Lilly. 

SOAR like an eagle through the vaulted sky. Banks. Soar 
lighter than a mounting angel. G. Powell. 

SOFT as compassion. Savage. — as pity. Beaumont fy Fletcher, 
A. Hill, fy others. — as forgiving mercy. N. Rowe. — as love, 
Countess of Winchilsea, Falconer. — as content. N. Field. — as 
infancy. Montgomery. Qualities, soft as a rocked infant's 
meekness. H. Brooke. Soft as sleeping infant's smile. Cole- 
ridge. — as the caged wood-lark's low lamenting lay. Montgo- 
mery. More soft than the nightingale's song. Alfred, a Masque. 
Soft as the nightingale's complaining song. Dryden. — as Phi- 
lomela's tender tale. W. Thompson. Voice more soft than 
Philomel's complaint. L. Theobald. Soft as the nightingale's 
harmonious woe in dewy even-tide, when cowslips drop their 
sleepy heads and languish in the breeze. W. Thompson. — as 
the night-bird's amorous music flows in Zibet's gardens when 
she w t oos the rose. Scott of A mw ell. Song, softer than the 
linnet's lay. The Shamrock. Soft as the songs that warble 
through the grove. Charlotte Brookes sReliaues of Irish Poetry. 
Words soft and soothing as the lyre. Gay. Soft as Phoebus' 
lyre. Hughes. — as the notes which Phcebus did employ to 
raise the glories of ill-fated Troy. C. Shaw. Soft a cadence, 
as evening winds breathe on the Eolian harp, when swan-like 
on the strings they die in music. Play, Gonzanga. Music, so 
soft that fancy half would deem from viewless harps such 
liquid murmurs fell. B. Barton. Soft as the breath of distant 
flutes at hours when silent evening closes up the flowers. Gay. 
— as the close of distant dying music. L. Theobald. — as di- 
stant shepherd's pipe at evening's close. John Bowring. Soft 
and melting as the song of angels that charms the heaven 'rapt 



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ear of dying saints. Play, Herminius 8$ Espasia, by Hart. — 
Soft as the music of the spheres. M. A. Browne. — as expiring 
notes at distance die. Poem, Abelard to Eloisa. — as the tender 
moving sighs when longing lovers meet. Ramsay. — as yielding 
sighs. Poem, Paradise of Coquettes. Language, soft as adora- 
tion breathes. W. Cowper. Softer than sighs. Garth. — than 
a virgin's sigh. Fenton. Soft as Love's sigh. Rome, a Poem. 
Softer than lovers' sighs. R. Wilkinson, Cumberland, fy 
others. Whispers, soft as lover's sigh. D. Terry. The wind 
breathed soft as lover's sigh. Sir W. Scott. Soft as lovers' 
language. Suckling. — as lovers' whispers when they woo. 
Sir W. Davenant. — as fond lovers' parting tear. R. Burns. 
Soft and relenting as a virgin's prayers. Beaumont fy Fletcher. 
Gentle accents, soft as those of love-sick virgins breathing 
out their souls in tenderest expressions. Play, Win her 
and take her. — as the memory of buried love. Byron. — as 
trickling balm to bleeding pains. Gay. Softer than sleep. E. 
Sherburne, Polwhele's Theocritus, fy others. — as the printless 
step of midnight sleep. Jephson. — as the velvet hand of sleep. 
Poole's Parnassus. — as infants' sleep. A. Hill. — as an infant's 
slumber. Massinger. Soft as the sleep which tired at eve, the 
harmless infant knows. Prince Hoare. Soft were my slum- 
bers, sweet my rest, such as the infant's on the breast. N. 
Cotton. Softer than thoughtless hours of sweetest slumbers. 
Adams, in Dry dens Miscellany. Soft as the slumbers of a 
saint forgiven. Pope.- — as the smiles that mark a mother's joy 
clasping her new-born infant. W. Shirley. — as Venus. Durfey. 
Soft and graceful as the Queen of Love. John Mottley. — as a 
Cupid. Behn. — as the hands of love. Sir W. Davenant. My 
words and looks were softer than an infant's blushes. C. Gib- 
ber. Soft as morning light. Sir W. Jones. — as the kisses of 
the light. C. Cotton. — as Cynthia's ray. B. Hoole. More soft 
than Luna's silver beaming light. Poem, Aurelia. Light, soft 
as the dewy queen of night. B. Hoole. Soft and silent as 
moon-light. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as the moon- 
light on the main. Edward Jones's Relics of Welsh Poetry. 



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Soft as yon silver beams that sleep upon the ocean's trembling- 
breast. Mrs. Radcliffe. — as moonlight seen afar, a silver shine 
on trembling streams. M. R. Mitford. — as the night star's beam. 
J. B. Rogers. Soft as the breath of morn in bloom of spring 
dropping a lucid tear on Zephyr's wing. Chatter ton. — as the 
childhood of the morn. Poole's Parnassus. — as the spirit of 
the vernal morn. A. Seward. — as a vernal morn when cooling 
breezes fan every smiling flower and odorous plant sparkling with 
dew just opening all their sweets. R. Hurst. More soft than the 
sun of a fair April day. The Minstrel, a Poem. — as May. Shep- 
herd's Lottery. — as the morn of May. A. Seward. — as an even- 
ing in May. Byron. — as the downy breast of verdant May. 
Aurelia, a Poem. Softer than the breath of May. C.Johnson. 
Soft as Favonius. Jephson. — as spring. B. Hoole. — as the 
brow of spring, Hunt. Softer than a summer's cloud. John 
Smith. Soft as the clouds mild April evenings wear which 
drop fresh flowerets on the youthful year. Fenton. — as closing 
day. Scott of Amwell. — as day's departing beam. Sorrows of 
Love, a Poem. — as air. Shahespear, Duchess of Newcastle, fy 
others. More soft and active than the air. J. Shirley. — than 
fleecy air. John Smith. Soft as dewy air. Play, Heroic Friend- 
ship. — as yielding air. Prior. Softer than gentle air. Sir F. 
Fane. Soft as evening air. Banks, A. Hill. — as the midnight air. 
Mrs. Rowe. Soft and gentle as the air. Beaumont fy Fletcher. 
His voice is soft as is the upper air, or dying lovers' words. 
Dryden. More soft than is the fleecy air that clothes the infant 
morn. Sir W. Davenant, Soft as the balmy air that gently bends 
the herbage, and calmly breathes the morning sweets. C. John- 
son. — as the curled air by mild Etesian winds made temperate. 
Nabhs. — as the passing wind. W. Cowper. Her voice was 
soft as summer winds, Ossian. Soft and melting as the south 
wind. S. Marmion. Kiss softer than a southern wind. Durfey. 
Soft as the west wind breathing on opening flowers. Annota- 
tions on Milton's Paradise Lost, 1695. — as the summer's gale. 
Metrical Miscellany. Their strife was soft as two summer 
gales shaking their light wings on a lake. Ossian. She comes 



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upon me with as soft an air as summer gales o'er-smoothing 
ocean's brow. Sturmy. Soft as the voice of summer's evening 
gale. Falconer. Soft and soothing as the gale of eve. Milman. 
— as gales that waft perfume from cowslip meads. Scott of Am- 
rvell. — as vernal gales that o'er the violets blow. Sir W. Jones. 
— as the gale that o'er a violet plays. Ibid. More soft than 
spring's reviving gale. Jane West. Soft as the voice of ver- 
nal gales that o'er the bending meadow blow. Langhorne. — as 
the sighings of the gale that wakes the flowery year. Alfred, 
an Oratorio. — as the evening gale when breathing perfumes 
through the rose-hedged vale. Chatterton. Soft and sweet as 
is the morning blast of eastern gales. Beaumont' 's Psyche. 
Softer than zephyrs. A. Hill, Morton. Soft as southern ze- 
phyrs. Play, Pcetus fy Arria. — as evening zephyrs blow. W. 
Richardson. — as the summery zephyr when the breeze salutes 
but lightly the tall mountain trees. Patriot Vision, a Poem. 
Soft as the sound of Zephyr's wing that whispers tidings of the 
spring. F. Hoyland. Soft and gentle as the balmy breath of 
vernal Zephyrs. T. Franklin. Soft and sweet as the zephyr 
when in flowery vales it plays. Fielding. — as Zephyr's balmy 
breeze. C. Churchill. Sighs soft as zephyrs on the wave. 
Richard Shiel. Soft as Zephyr sighs on morning lily's cheek. 
Pollok. — as the evening zephyr's vernal sigh. Miss Porden. — 
as the zephyr's balmy breath. The Nun, a Poem. — as Zephyr's 
evening breath. Oldmixon. — as the zephyr's kiss. Garrick. — as 
plumage from young Zephyr's wing. Ibid. Soft as the breath 
of spring that fans the trees, nor shakes the slightest blossom 
to the ground. A. Philips. — as the breezes of a vernal morn. 
Bevil Higgons. — as the gentle breath that fans at eve. T. 
Percy, in Dodsley's Collection. — as the breeze at closing day. 
Mary Robinson. — as the breeze of evening. The Union of the 
Roses, a Poem. — softer than the breeze of spring. A.Hill. Soft 
as breeze of spring warmed by the sunny beam. G. E. Howard. 
Softer than vernal breezes. The Chaplet, M. Mendez. Soft 
as the breeze of genial May. Pasquin. — as the breeze that fans 
the smiling field. Friendship's Offering. — as the breeze that 



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fans the grove. Play, Alarbas. — as the first fair breeze that 
fans the spring. Play, Fair Circassian. — as the breeze which 
wantons o'er the mead to steal its fragrance. Play, Codrus. — 
as breezy breath of wind. M. Green. — as dew. Campbell; 
J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms, — as the balmy dew. F. 
Beaumont. — as morning dew. Milbourne, W. S. Landor. — as 
the dews of heaven. Poetical Calendar. — as the gently falling 
dew. W. Heard. — as the night dews fall. «/". Clare. Soft fall 
thy words like morning dew on blowing flowers, bestowing new 
life. Ramsay. Words, softer than the dew that nurses the 
blooming infants of the spring. C. Johnson. Soft as dews 
shook from the tresses of a verdant morn on the gay bosom of 
a flowery vale. W. Richardson. — as drop the dews of balmy 
May. MicJcle's Lusiad. Fall soft as summer dews on flowers. 
Poetical Album. Soft as the silent-footed dews that steal upon 
the starlight hours. W. Thompson. Soft as the pearly dew 
that decks the grove. Hunt. — as dew on waking flowers. Sir 
W. Jones. — as the dew-drop on the blushing rose. Cumberland. 
— as the dew-drops on the scented thorn, or lilies gleaming 
with the tears of morn. Rome, a Poem. Soft and melting as 
the dew that kisses every morn the trembling roses. A. Cowley. 
Soft as evening dews. Rome, a Poem. Softer than the evening 
dews that kiss, then melt away upon the flowers. ' TV. Thomp- 
son. More soft, more soothing than the dews of sleep. M. 
Rolleston. Soft and kind as the descending dew refreshing 
where it falls. E. Haywood. — as the sleeting snow. Poem, Love 
Feast. Softer than rain on wool. Sir F. Fane. Soft as the 
last drops round heaven's airy bow. Byron. — as the showers 
that cheer the vernal air. Solomon, an Oratorio. — as the vernal 
shower. TV. S. Landor. Fall softly as fruitful showers. Sir 
TV. Davenant. Soft as falling snow. J. Wilson, author of Isle 
of Palms. Softer and whiter than the falling snow. Pix. Soft 
as the fleeces of descending snows. S. Johnson. — as falling 
thistle down. Bp. Hall. Soft and light as cobwebs. Jonson. 

as the gossamer in summer shades extends its twinkling line 

from spray to spray. Mickle. — as the murmurs of a weeping 



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spring. Sir W. Davenant.—^as murmuring currents. Dryden. 
— as murmuring waters. R. Barford. — as the murmur of the 
bubbling brook. B. Martyn. As streams that steal through 
even vales and murmur that they move so slow. Langhorne. 
Soft as day's closing murmur falls. John Clare. Murmurs, 
soft as those which sweep the sea at evening close. Landon. 
Soft as murmurs of the plaintive dove. Hayley. — as Philo- 
mela's strain. Ode to Fancy. — as blossoms. Oiway. — as sum- 
mer flowers. Chatterton. Soft and sweet like springing flowers. 
Behn. — as lilies. Shenstone. Soft and white as rising lilies, or as 
falling snow. W.Thompson. — as a bed of roses blown. Carew. — 
as leaves of roses. E. Ward; Play, The Italians. — as the blue- 
bell. Tickell. — as down. Albion's England, by Warner; Marlowe ', 
fy others. — as feathery down. Dwijer. — as young down. Shake- 
spear. — as down upon the wings of Love. J. Adams, in Dryden 's 
Miscellany. — as down on wings of cherubim. R. Shiel. — as the 
downy plumes of fabled love. Madan on Pope. — as downy fea- 
thers. A. Cowley. — as dove's down. Shake spear ; Play, Neg- 
lected Virtue. Soft and tender as the azure down that circles 
Cytherea's silver doves. Play, Taming of a Shrew. — as the 
down of turtle dove. B. Booth. — as down on Venus' dove. 
Poole's Parnassus. — as the turtle in her down. Play, Fatal 
Union. — as swan's down. Jonson, Durfey. — as the down of 
swans. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Dryden, fy others. — as the down 
on swans. Ravenscroft. More soft, more purely white than 
swanny down. Play, Faithful Shepherd. Soft as is the down 
of swans, and voice more sweet than are their dying notes. 
Play, Zelmane. More soft than silver down of swans. Old 
Poem, Zepheria. Soft as spotless down upon the swan's fair 
breast that drew bright Cytherea's chariot. Marston. Soft as 
down feathers plucked from Leda's swans. Play. Muleasses 
the Turk. — as the down that swells the cygnet's nest. Shen- 
stone. — as down of cygnet. A. Frounce, R. B. Sheridan, § 
others. Softer and whiter than the cygnet's down. C. Johnson. 
Soft as the callow cygnet in its nest. Byron. — as the cygnet's 
downy wing. B. Hoole. Softer than beds of down. Fletcher, 



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Soft as fleecy eider down. Margaret of Anjou, a Poem by Miss 
Holford. — as the swan. Addison. — as Leda's swan. Plays, 
Roving Husband Reclaimed, 8$ Intriguing Widow. Softer and 
whiter than an old swan's down. Fanshaw. Soft as the airy 
plumes of thistle down. Poole's Parnassus. — as Venus' doves. 
Shepherd's Lottery. — as Cytherea's dove. Edinburgh Collec- 
tion, Christopher Anstey 8$ others. Soft and gall-less as Ery- 
cina's doves. A. Cowley. — as billing doves. W. Thompson. — 
as the fanning of a turtle's plumes. Jephson. Softer than the 
turtle's downy breast. Mallet. Soft and tender as a pelican's 
breast. Sir W. Davenant. Softer than down of bees. /. Shir- 
ley. Soft as wool. Chaucer, Drayton, fy others. — as wool new 
drest. Sidney, in England's Parnassus. Softer than the lamb- 
kin's downy fleece. F. Hoyland. — than the wool of wether. 
John Smith. Soft as fleece. M. Pilkington. Softer than the 
Colchian fleece. J. Day. Soft as silk. //. Medwall, Lidgate, 
ty others. — as Naples silk. Drayton. — as the finest Persian 
silk. R. Carpenter. Softer than tufts of unwrought silk. W. 
Browne. Soft as satin. E. Ward, Ireland's Translation of 
Maid of Orleans. — as velvet. Chaucer, Lidgate, fy others. — as 
sarsnet. Drayton. — as satin with the grain. N. Lee. Soft 
and white like snowy satin. /. Weston. Soft as cotton from 
the Indian tree. Poole's Parnassus. Softer than beavers' 
skins. A. Cowley. Soft as the wool of beavers. Play, Mr. 
Turbulent. Softer than a beaver's fleece. John Smith. — than 
ermine. Sir W. Davenant. Soft as the ermine's skin. Ibid. 
Soft and smooth as mole's skin. Jonson. More soft than oil. 
Sotheby's Oberon. Soft and smooth and thick as snow. A. 
Cowley, in Dryden's Miscellany.—?^ melting snow. C. Philips. 
Softly as snow falls. A. Cowley. Soft as the fleeces of de- 
scending snows. Pope. Fall soft as snow on the sea. T. 
Moore. Fall soft as snow on snow. /. Wilson, author of Isle of 
Palms. Drop softly as snow that does in feathers fall. Sir W. 
Davenant. Softly as leaves of blossoms lay themselves. /. 
Banks. Soft as jelly. Carew, T. Heywood. — as pap. Gay, 
M. Clancy, fy others. — as oil. Sacred Script., Burton' s Anatomy 



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of Melancholy, fy others. Softly like a stream of oil. Browne. 
Soft and sweet as butter. Swift. Soft as pomatum. /. Ford, 
Salmagundy. — as a roasted pippin. Breval. Softer than curds. 
Jonson. — than curds new turned. Dryden. — than tender curds, 
or down of swans. G. Sandys. Soft as dough. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. Soft and malleable as liquid amber. Play, Lady Ali- 
mony. — as wax. Shakespear, G. S. Green. Soft and tractable 
to your commands as virgin wax unto the impression of the 
seal. Lower. — as lambkins. PolwheWs Theocritus. Soft as 
the pencil's most harmonious shades. Rome, a Poem. 
Soft as the tints of yon ethereal bow 
That bends its bright arch o'er the dark concave, 
And bids the storm its destin'd limit know. A. Seward. 
Soft as the rainbow melting from the cloud. /. Montgomery. 

SOLEMN as night. Jesuit. — as ravens. E. Young. Solemn as 
dying saints' farewell, the old man's parting blessing fell. 
Poem, Ellen Fitzarthur. Voice, solemn as the tone of the last 
trump. G. Croly. 

SOLID as a rock. E. Young. 

SOLITARY like the flower of the rock that lifts its fair head un- 
seen. Ossian. 
SONOROUS as the storm. Broome. — as immortal breath can 

blow. E. Young. 
SOONER hard steel will melt with southern winds, a seaman's 
whistle calm the ocean, a town on fire be extinct with tears, 
than women vowed to blushless impudence, with sweet be- 
haviour and soft minioning, will turn from that where appetite 
is fixed. Marston. Sooner the chariot of the sun shall quit 
its constant course than hymeneal ties unite our fates. Hodson. 
Sooner than thought could change its present object. Poole's 
Parnassus. 

Sooner the tiger shall with pity glow, 

Rude rocks be soften'd at the plaint of woe, 

The tempest cease when houseless vagrants plead, 

Than stubborn virtue from her path recede. Eyles Irwin. 



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The wolf shall wed the lamb, the hawk the dove, sooner than 
I will submit to hear thee talk of love to me. Thomas Cooke. 
SOOTHE like the breeze upon the fevered brow. Landon. Sooth- 
ing as verdure to the eye, roseate sweets to the smell, or mu- 
sic's melting strains to the ear. W. Mason. Voice more 
soothing than the lover's lute, or the soft warbling of the pas- 
toral flute. Patriot Vision, a Poem. Soothing as the music soft, 
of distant bells. Scott of A mw ell. — as the voice of Zephyr whis- 
pering 'midst the rustling leaves. Ibid. — as the sound of water 
murmuring through the sedge. Ibid. — as the mountain stream. 
Dodsley's Collection. — as the turtle's plaintive call. Scott of 
Amwell. 

SORROW on thy fading cheek sits like a blast upon the virgin 
rose. Rolt. 

SOUND sweet as the music of the spheres. T. Middleton. 
— sound more sweetly than choirs of syrens' sense-bereaving 
notes. Glapthorne. — more sweet than prayers offered by 
cloistered virgins. Ibid. Sounds, as dire as when at general 
doom the dreadful trump shall wake the guilty dead. Dr. John 
Browne. Sound as is a bell. Having ton's Epigrams. — as a 
bell. Shakespear, Beaumont ty Fletcher, fy othevs. My heart 
is as sound as a bell. Play, Tvial of Chivalry; Bavnaby 
Barnes, 8f others. Sound as a roach. T. Shadwell, Ravenscroft, 
fy othevs. — as a fish. Play, Beau Merchant; Old Poetvy, a 
Question. — as a rock. Geneval Conway. — as old wine. Beau- 
mont Sj- Fletcher. 

and now far ofFremov'd 

The dying voice of tumult faintly sounds, 

Like the hoarse thunder in a distant sky, 

As hollow roarings of subsiding waves 

After their conflict with a furious storm. W. Shivley. 

SOUR as verjuice. Play, Shoemakers Holiday, — as a crab. 
John D. Breval. — as crab-juice. A. Cherry. This fellow is 
as sour as if he were the offspring of a crab-tree. Play, Gentle- 
man Cully. 



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SPACIOUS as heaven. Lillo. . 

SPANGLED like leaves that laden are with trembling dew. 
Herrick. 

SPARKLE like a star. J. G. Cooper. — like a shooting star. 
Sir W. Jones. — like the morning star. Moses Mendez. The 
diamond sparkled like the star of day. Sir W. Jones. Spar- 
kling as stars in frosty winter's night. Lidgate. — like the stars 
in a frosty night. H. Higden. Sparkle like the sky when 
myriad stars all gaily bright, gem the pale robe of dusky night. 
Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a Poem. — like the sun. Duchess of 
Newcastle. Sparkling in glory brighter than the sun. /. Crown. 
Sparkle like approaching morn. Cornwall. — like the morning 
dew. C. Dibdin. Sparkling as the dew. James Barclay. All 
the shrubs with sparkling spangles show like morning sun- 
shine tinselling the dew. Herrick. Sparkle like a diamond. 
Middleton 8$ Rowley, Marmion, fy others. — as polished gems. 
Judith Cowper. — like the beaten flint. Shakespear, N. Lee. — 
like burnished brass. Sacred Script. Sparkling as a goddess. 
Dryden. — like the lucid tear on the cheek of a happy bride. 
Jane Porter, 

SPEED like the fatal pestilence unseen, that blasts with fetid 
death the wholesome life. G. E. Howard. I, like abird up- 
borne on azure wings, would speed my flight. Andromache, 
in Greek Tragic Theatre. 

SPEEDY as the flight of birds. Doynes Tasso. More speedy 
than the hound-pursued hind. G. Sandys. Pace, speedy as 
the wind. Poole's Parnassus. 

SPITEFUL. More spiteful than a trodden snake. Fraunce. 

SPLENDENT as at noon the orb of day. C. Beckingham. 

SPLENDID as the mid-day sun. Duchess of Newcastle. — like 
the lightning's blaze. Doyne's Tasso. A brilliant beam, splen- 
did as morn. B. Hoole. 

SPORTFUL as zephyrs. Henry Earl of Surrey. — as nature. 
Paradise of Coquettes, a Poem, 

SPORTIVE as a kid. Play, Merry Devil of Edmonton.— as the 

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fawn. W. Wordsworth. — as the gladsome fawn. Charlotte 
Brookes' 's Reliques of Irish Poetry. — as a youthful cat. P. Pindar. 

SPOTLESS as the sun. E. Young. Spotless as the sun, warm 
as its heat, and as its light diffusive. G. E. Howard. — as the 
eye of day. W. Thompson. — as the light. J. Crown ; The Rob- 
bers, a Play from Schiller. More spotless than that living 
light that gilds the crest of heaven's sublimity. /. Beaumont's 
Psyche. As pure from spot as elemental fire. Matthew Cop- 

pinger. Spotless as the moon. T. Heywood as the vestal 

flame. Rome, a Poem. Her soul is spotless as the vestal 
beam that falls in summer midnights from the moon upon the 
brooks. G. Soane. Spotless as the brow of clearest heaven. 
Marston. — as snow. Thomson, Farmer's Boy. — as mountain 
snow. Mrs. Cowley. — as new-fallen snow. Browne. Untrod- 
den snow is not so spotless. Marston, S. J. Arnold. Spotless 
as lilies. Marston. — as the blooming flower. Christopher 
Anstey. — as an alabaster rock. Glapthorne. Spotless and free 
as Virtue's self from blemish. G. E. Howard. Not sanctity 
more spotless. T. Middleton. Spotless as Chastity herself. 
W. Thompson. Spotless and white as naked innocence. /. 
Smith. — as an angel. T. Heywood. — as first-created angels 
were. C. Davenant. — as white-robed angels are. W. Hawkins. 
— as seraph's robes of new-spun light. TV. Thompson. More 
spotless than are the thoughts of babes. Glapthorne. I am 
as spotless from offence as the soft sleep of cradled infancy. 
Jephson. Spotless as a babe that is just born. Foote. — as a 
vestal. /. Maine. A soul as spotless as the hand of Heaven 
e'er inshrined in woman's angel form. Massinger, Hayley* 
Spotless as Innocence itself. James Drake. — as the dove. 
John Clare. 

SPOTTED as leopards. E. Young, Swift. — like a panther's skin. 
Play, Trial of Chivalry. — like the crimson drops in the bottom 
of a cowslip. Shakespear. — as infamy. Theobald. 

SPREAD like an ocean. Lovibond. — like the vast Atlantic when 
no shore, no rock, or promontory stops the sight unbounded 



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as it wanders. Glover. Spreading like a sea. Spenser. — like 
a vast meandering flood. Preston's App. Rhodius. Spread 
broad as a lake. Mason. Spread like a gathering whirlwind 
o'er the land. T. Day. His fame spread abroad like a sun. 
Lidgate. — like a surface. Pomfret. — like the curtains of the 
night. Sir W. Davenant. 

SPRIGHTLY as the light. Blackmore, Poetical Calendar. — as 
unyoked heifers. Duke. — as an antelope. Vaihek. 

SPRING forth like the bounding roe. J. Hervey. Spring like 
grass. Watts. Spring up like mushrooms. Farce, Who Fares 
Best ; R. Hamilton. Spring back more strongly than a Scy- 
thian bow. Dryden. 

SPURN thee like a cur out of my way. Shahespear, 

STABLE as the fabric of the world propped on itself. Didone 
Abbandonata. 

STAGGER like a drunken man. Sacred Script. 

STALK close behind him like a witch's fiend. Dryden. 

STAND firm as a rock. T. Middleton, Watts.- — as an adamantine 
rock. Rome, a Poem. Stand firm as the rock that braves the 
roaring flood. Ibid. Stand like a rock that breaks the dash- 
ing waves and baffles every storm. Decius fy Paulina. Stand 
firm like an undaunted rock whose constant hardness rebeats 
the fury of the raging sea, dashing it into froth. Henry Dell. 
Stand impregnable as a tower. Doyne's Tasso. Stand as in- 
trepid, as firm, and unmoved as the statue of a Roman gla- 
diator. Dryden. Stand on end like quills upon the fretful 
porcupine. Shakespear. 

STARE like a stuck pig. Gay. — like congers. P. Pindar. Stu- 
pidly stare about him like a calf new come into the world. 
Dryden. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shahe- 
spear. Stared at like a comet. Dekker. 

START like a war-horse at the trumpet's sound. Byron. — as 
at lightning-gleam. Landon. — like a steed who sees a lion 
under a bush beside the pathway. Sir W. Scott. Started as 
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he had seen a basilisk. M. G. Lewis. Start back like Balaam's 
frightened ass. /. Crown. Start back as a child at a shadow. 
E. Young. — like murderers when ghosts appear and draw 
their curtains in the dead of night. Dryden. 

STARTLE. 5 Tis those on whom Prosperity her sweet perfume 
breathes, on whom each morning sun with rays of cheering 
hope and gladness beams ; such startle at the sound of death, 
— it wakes them from a dream of pleasure. Author of The 
Times, a Poem. 

STATELY as an ostrich. A. Cherry. 

STAUNCH as hound. Sir W. Scott. 

STEADFAST as the sun. T. Heywood. — as a wall. Chaucer, 
Lidgate. — as a rock. Durfey, Medea in Greek Tragic Theatre. 
— as a rock of diamond. Spenser. Truth, steadfast as earth's 
solid base. W. Richardson. 

STEADY as the pole. Watts. — as the polar star. Sir W. Scott. 
— as is the centre to this glorious world. Marston. — as a rock. 
R. Griffith. Her truth more steady than the mountain's base. 
Merry. 

STEAL upon his sorrows like a slumber. W. Thompson. Steal 
gently on you like a soft sleep. Play, Siege of Constantinople. 
Death steals o'er me like a gentle sleep, soft, mild, oblivious. 
Play, Pcetus fy Arria. Steal along like music o'er the waters. 
Landon. Steal on the ear like dew upon the rose. Ibid. Steal 
upon him like a thief. /. Webster. Like kindly dew I'll steal 
upon this lovely drooping flower, and wake it into smiles. 
W. Thompson. Steal soft and sweet like some refreshing 
breeze that in the summer's heat doth gently kiss the trees. 
T. Rodd's Ballads. 

STEAM like a bath. Jonson. 

STEEP as the Alps. Ibid. 

STERILE as a wilderness. Sir W. Davenant. 

STERN as death. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as war. Play, Costly 



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Whore. More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. 
Shakespear. Stern as the kindred forms of hell. T. Day. 
— as the surly lion o'er his prey. Pope. — as the wild dashing 
sea. M. A. Browne. 



STICK like kelp to the rock. Byron. — like burs. Gay. Stick 
close together like grapes upon a wall. Fielding. Stick to him 
like glue. A. Ramsay. I will stick as close to the ship as 
pitch to a rope. Centlivre. Stick as close as the bark to the 
tree. Sir Charles Sedley. Stick close to me as is my skin. 
J. Taylor. Stick as close to us as the skin to the flesh, or as 
the flesh to the bones. Edward Burt. Stick like Hercules' 
shirt. Dryden. 

STIFF as frost. Polwhele's Theocritus. — as a stake. A. Nevile, 
T. Dilke, fy others. Stiffer than the Rhodian statue. P. 
Hausted. — than the bristles of a porcupine. Peaps. — than 
bristles on a shooting porcupine. /. Harris. 

STILL as death. N. Lee, A. Selden, fy others. Still and dark as 
death. /. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. Still and silent as the 
shades of death. JBehn. — as the grave. Shakespear, Sotheby's 
Oberon. Still and darksome as the grave. Frances Burney. 
Still and silent as the grave. Sir W. Scott. Still as the ca- 
verns of the silent tomb. T. Hogg. — as the night. Quarles ; 
Play, Orgula ; fy others. — as night, or summer's noon-tide air. 
Milton. Still and mournful as the evening light. /. Wilson, 
author of Isle of Palms. Still and majestic as the silent moon. 
Specimens of the German Lyric Poets. Still as at the noon of 
night. Congreve. — as the bosom of the desert night. N. Lee. 
— as the night, when not a zephyr stirs the trembling leaves. 
C. Lennox. — as midnight. W. Browne, Beaumont fy Fletcher, 
ty others. — as the dead of midnight. Play, Damon fy Pythias. 
— as sleep. R. Montgomery. — as the cave of sleep. L. Theobald. 
— as slumbering infant. J. Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — 
as the foot of time. W. Thompson. — as pale midnight when she 
throws on heaven and earth a deep repose. /. Cawthorn. — as 
a calm. Sackville. Still as at noon, a southern forest's shade. 



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Mrs. Hemans. Still as the sea ere winds were taught to blow, 
or moving spirit bade the waters flow. Pope. — as old chaos 
before motion's birth. A. Cowley. — as the gentle calm when 
the hushed wave no longer foams before the rapid storm. 
Smollett. — as a summer sea. Mrs. Hemans. — as when the hal- 
cyon sits. W. Cartwright. — as standing lakes. John Tracy, 
— as a frozen torrent. Mrs. Hemans. — as falling dew. E. Ec~ 
clestone. Still and slow like falling dew. Play, King Saul. 
Still and sullen as the awful pause that precedes nature's con- 
vulsion. R. B, Sheridan. — as the breathless interval between 
the flash and thunder. Byron. Still as the breeze, but dread- 
ful as the storm. Campbell. — as a rock. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. 
— as a stone. Sacred Script., Chaucer," fy others. Sit as still as 
stones in the street. Play, Gammer Gurton's Needle. Stand 
still as statues. Play, Royal Voyage. — as a statue. Byron. — 
as a tombstone never to be moved. Pope. 

How calm ! — how silent ! — not a sound is heard, 
The soothing song of night's sequester'd bird 
Dies on the ear — the zephyr's wing is still. James Bird, 
Still as fatal planets. N. Lee. — as lambs. Ibid. — as a mouse. 
Thomas Brerewood ; Poem, The Vestriad, fy others. 
STING like scorpions. Play, Nero ; N. Cotton, fy others.— -like 
an adder. Sacred Script., J. Hervey. — like an adder's tooth. 
J. Lilly. — like poisonous asps to fury wrought. N. Cotton. 
— as a serpent. Sorrows of Love, a Poem. 

STINK like a polecat, or a bear. Somervile. 

STORM like a whirlwind. A. Murphy. More stormy than the 
wdnds. Duchess of Newcastle. Stormy as winds when com- 
bating the deep. Goring. His temper stormy as the troubled 
ocean when warring winds with high wrought billows rage 
o'erturn the deep and tempest all the main. W. Thompson. 

STOUT as Hercules. Sir John Moffett, E. Ward, $ others.— as 
Hector. Moffett, T. Shadwell, fy others. — as Sampson or 
Achilles. Moffett, — as a lion. Shadwell, Vanbrugh, fy others. 
— as young lions. T. Killigrew. — as steed of brass. Spenser. 



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STRAIGHT as a line. Chaucer ', Spenser, — as a thread. Play, Jacob 
fy Esau.— as wands. /. Day, Joseph Reed. — as Circe's wand. 
Chapman, D. Belchier, fy others. — as young hazel wands. T. 
Killigrew. Straight and slender like the hazel twig. Shakespear. 
as a cedar. Sidney, Shakespear, fy others. — as a fir. A. Cherry. 
— as the palm tree. Prior. — as any mast or palm did stand. 
Lidgate. — as a pine. Randolph, Ward's Gentle Shepherd. — as 
young pines or cedars in the grove. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as 
a bamboo. Foote. — as an arrow. Jonson, Behn, § others. — as 
a spear. N. Lee, C. Hopkins. — as any pillar. Play, Gammer 
Gurton's Needle. — His hair hung as straight as the hair of a river 
god rising from the water. Pope. Straight as the pink. Tichell. 

STREAMING as the comet's blaze. E. Young. 

STREWED thick as autumnal leaves before the wind. Play, 
Neglected Virtue. 

STRICT as Lent. Sir W. Scott. 

STRIDING like a vast Colossus. Dryden. 

STRIKE surer than thunder. Sir W. Davenant. — like lightning. 
T. Shadwell. 

STRONG as truth. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Savage. — as demon- 
stration. E. Young. — as proofs of holy writ. Shakespear. — as 
religious bonds. Southey. — as the prayer of dying penitent. /. 
Wilson, author of Isle of Palms. — as necessity. Savage, — as 
nature. South. — as beauty. Play, General cashiered ; Savage. 
— as youth. Pope. — as heaven itself. Shakespear. — as Jove. 
Addison. Stronger than the gods. Marston. Strong as death. 
Sacred Script., Fanshaw, 8$ others. More strong than are the 
gates of death or hell. Marlowe. Strong as Pluto's gates. 
Shakespear. — as fate. Poetical Calendar, Stevenson. — as de- 
stiny. T. Durfey. Stronger than virtue, honour, or love. Play, 
Vanella.—as thunder. A. Cowley, Hunt. Stronger than thun- 
der's winged force. P. Francis. Strong as a storm. Ossian. — 
as a storm in the ocean. Fragments of Ancient Poetry.— as the 
tempest of the evening air. Chatterton.—as Boreas on the 



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main, or as a whirlwind sweeping o'er the plain. Fragments of 
Fingal, a Poem. — as a whirlwind on the hill. Fragments of 
Ancient Poetry, — as a whirlwind on its stormy way. J. Bird. 
— as the winds. Blackmore. Light, strong as the sun's reful- 
gent power. B. Hoole. Strong as heaven's heat, and as its 
brightness clear. A. Hill. — as a deluge. Watts. — as floods 
whose raging inundation tears away houses and trees. Doyne's 
Tasso. — as a stream of many tides. Ossian. — as a river in its 
course. Ibid. — as mountain cataract. Campbell. — as a rock. 
Swift, Ossian, fy others. — as the rock of the ocean that stems a 
thousand wild waves on the shore. Campbell. — as a tower. 
Shakespear. — as a brazen tower. Pope. Stronger than towers 
of brass, or chastity. Carew. — than adamant. Play, Virgin 
Martyr. Bonds, strong as the linked adamant. H. Boyd. 
Strong as steel. Lidgate. — as brass. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as 
the oak. Sacred Script. — as the cedar of the mountain. Dr. 
Johnson. — as Atlas. /. Harris. — as Hercules. Shakespear. 
Wright, fy others. — as mighty Hercules. Play, Locrine. — as 
Hector. Play, Spanish Tragedy. — as a Sampson. E. Ward, 
Fielding. Voice, stronger than Stentor's. Sir J. H. Moore. 
Strong as a giant. Blackmore, Pope, fy others. Stronger than 
triple-bodied Geryon. Swift. — than revenge. G. Sewell. 
Strong as a lion. Sacred Script., T. Hey wood. — as a lion on 
the mountain born. W. S. Landor. Strong and beautiful as a 
young tiger. Byron. — as an elephant. Sidney. — as a horse. 
Duke of Newcastle. Strong and stout as a camel. G. Colman. 
— as brandy. Farquhar, Jephson, Sf others. — as mustard. 
J. Crown, Gay. 

STRUGGLE with adversity like a vessel combating the waves. 
Landon. — like the sun in clouds. Dryden. 

STRUT like turkeys. Sir W. Davenant, Dilke. — like a peacock. 
A. Cherry. Strut like a peacock in his gaudy trim and show 
all Lucifer. J. Harris. 

STUBBORN as a rock. Pope, W. Mason, fy others. — as a rock 
that braves the impetuous storm, and raging billows that lash 



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its sides. R. Hurst. — as steel. Dryden, Sir W. Scott, § others. 
— as the knotted oak. Dryden. — More stubborn than an un- 
tamed ox. A. Fraunce. Stubborn as an elephant's leg. W. 
Rowley. 
STUMBLE like the blind. Sir W. Davenant. 

STUPID as a post. E. Ward, fy others. — as a log. Poetical Ca- 
lendar. — as an ass. John Stevens. — as a fish. P. Pindar. — as 
oysters. Virgin of the Sun, from Kotzehue. Look as stupid as 
a poet in search of a simile. Thomas Holcroft. 

STURDY as a rock. W. Cowper. — as the oak. Prior. 

SUBLIME as heaven. Thomson. — as liberty. W. Thompson. 

SUBTLE as lightning. A. Cowley, Dryden. — as the air. T. 
Porter, Gildon, fy others. Subtle and soft like air. Marmion. 
— as a serpent. E. Ward. — as Sphynx. Shakespear. — as a 
fox. Shakespear, Burton, fy others. — as the fox for prey. 
Shakespear. 

SUCCEED as fast one at another's heels, as in the vast Mediter- 
ranean sea the rolling waves do one beget another. G. Peele. 

SUDDEN as thought. Beaumont $• Fletcher, Landon. — as de- 
sires. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as a stroke of thunder. Dr. 
Johnson. — as lightning. Jonson, J. Hervey, fy others. Sudden 
and fierce as lightning. Southern. — as winged lightning is. 
A. Cowley. More sudden than the lightning's flash. Delap. 
Sudden and irresistible as the stroke of lightning. Southey. — as 
the spark from smitten steel. E. Young. 

SUFFUSION softer than Aurora's blush. Jephson. 

SULLEN as neglected merit. Mountfort. — as a bear. Cumber- 
land. 

SULLY virtue as the smoke sullies the light. R. Wilkinson. 

SUNBRIGHT as is the eye of summer's day. Play. Looking- 
glass. 

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SUPER EMINENT among the group of kings, like the moon 
shining amidst twinkling stars. Specimens of Hindoo Litera- 
ture, by N. E. Kindersley. 

SUPERFLUOUS as to attempt the proof of a self-evident 
and first principle. South. — as to light a candle to the sun. 
Ibid. 

SUPPLE as a glove. Play, Mistaken Beauty ; Poetical Calendar. 
Supple and pliant as kid's leather gloves. Flecknoe. 

SURE as that ther£ is a God. Pomfret. — as God is true. Tillot- 
son. — as fate. Marston, Glapthorne, fy others. — as death. 
Plays, Wit of a Woman, Taming of a Shrew, fy others. — as 
right sits in Heaven's throne. E. Young. — as truth. Otway. — 
as reservedness implies aversion. N. Lee. — as wedlock. Beau- 
mont 8$ Fetcher. Sure as cold engenders hail. Pope. — as light- 
ning. Congreve. — as the day comes. Lacy. — as the sun tracts 
his bright path in heaven. M. R. Mitford. — as night follows 
day. E. Young. — as steel. Play, A Woman mill have her Will. 
— as steel obeys the magnet's laws. M. R. Mitford. — as the 
shaft that leaves the Parthian bow. N. Rowe. Sure of it as I 
am that I have a nose to my face. Sir R. Howard. Sure as a 
gun. T. Shadwell, Ravenscroft, fy others. 

SURLY as an old lion. Suckling. 

SURPASS her as greatest does the least. Shakespear. My la- 
dy's beauty 'passeth more the best of yours than doth the sun 
the candle light, or brightest day the darkest night. Henry 
Earl of Surrey. She 'pass'd the rest as far as doth the sun 
another little star. Harington. Surpass as far as Phcebus doth 
the other stars. Ibid. She doth 'pass you all as much as Titan 
stains a star. Gascoigne. Surpassed them as far as the full 
moon does that of two days old. Arabian Nights Entertain- 
ments. 'Pass the rest as stubborn steel excels the brittle glass. 
Turbervile. Surpass as much as sparkling diamonds surpass 
glass. Chapman. — as much as the sun in its meridian glory is 
above the glimmering sparks of the milky way, as much as 



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heaven is beyond this terrestrial globe, or as much as a man is 
above a brute ; so much is a poet above other men. James 
Miller. Surpass as far as May morning does midnight. Wil- 
liam Dunbar. 

SURPRISE us like unexpected contingencies. Dr. Johnson. 
Surprised as the shepherd boy when he sees a thunderbolt fall 
close at his feet. Liberal. 

SUSPEND. A sudden pause the imperfect sense suspended, 
like the dread stillness of condensing storms. Dr. Johnson. 

SWALLOW it as greedily as parched earth drinks rain. Denham. 

SWARM like bees. H. Shirley, Sir W. Scott. — as bees about a 
honey-pot. Duchess of Newcastle. — like flies. Poetical Epistle 
to Lord Mansfield. 

SWEEP like the pestilence. Landon. — like a whirlwind. W. 
Rowley. — like the whirlwind o'er the ocean. Landon. Sweep 
away like a flood. Watts. — like an overflowing stream. Ibid. 

SWEET as sure salvation to departing souls. G. Powell. — as 
Elysium. Play, Alarbas. Sweeter than infant innocence. 
Mary Robinson. Sweet as charity. W. Cowper. — as sincerity. 
P. Pindar. Sweeter than liberty. Congreve, E. Moore, fy 
others. — than freedom. Massinger. — than life. T. Scot, Titus 
Andronicus, fy others. — as love. Herrich, Akenside, fy others. 
— as the smile when fond lovers meet. Burns. — as the soft 
whispers of consenting love. Lansdowne. It will sound in the 
just ears of Heaven more sweet than prayers offered by clois- 
tered virgins. Glapthorne. Sweet as the cloistered virgin's 
vesper hymn, whose spirit happily dead to earthly hopes al- 
ready lives in heaven. Southey. 

Sweet the delight when the gall'd heart 
Feels consolation's lenient hand 
Bind up the wound from fortune's dart, 
With friendship's life-supporting band. 
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The soul his willing captive keeps, 
When he in bliss the melting spirit steeps, 
Who drops delicious tears, and wonders that he weeps. 

Hayley. 
Sweet as the spring. Beaumont fy Fletcher, C. Cotton, $ others. 
Sweet, fresh, and temperate as the spring. Duchess of New- 
castle. Sweeter than the bosom of the spring. Sir W. Dave- 
nant. — than the rosy month of spring. W. Thompson. Sweet 
as the whispering breath of spring. B. Hoole. — as the flowery 
spring. Ibid. — as the budding spring. R. Drury. Sweeter 
than spring and all the golden buttons on her fresh boughs. 
Play, Rivals. More sweet, more gay than vernal fragrance 
and the flowers of May. Mickle's Lusiad. Sweeter than 
blooming Nature, or the breath of wanton Zephyr. C. Johnson. 
— than nature just refreshed by heaven when opening buds 
lavish their grateful odours. R. Wilkinson. 

Sweet as the blooming season of the year, 

When ev'ry view's delightful to the eye, 

And ev'ry breeze is fraught with rich perfumes. 

Osborne Sidney Wandesford. 
Sweet as the banks when spring perfumes the verdant plants 
and laughing flowers. Poetical Calendar. — as summer. Shake- 
spear. — as a beauteous summer day. Play, Plymouth in an 
Uproar. More sweet than summer in her loveliest hours. John 
Clare. Sweet as the morn. Walts, W. Thompson, fy others. 
Sweet and smiling like the morn. Motteux. — as Aurora. Ram- 
say. — as Aurora when from eastern clouds she darts to give 
the world a new-born day. C. Beckingham. — as the rosy morn. 
N. Rowe. — as the rosy glories of the morn. Durfey. — as the 
rising morn. /. Bidlake. — as the breath of morn. T. Percy, 
W. Thompson, 8$ others. — as the breath of rosy morn. Fawkes. 
Sweeter than the spicy breath of morning. C. Johnson. — than 
the fragrant breath of morning. F. Bellers. Sweet as the 
breath of heaven with day-spring born. Potter, in Poetical 
Calendar. — as the morning ray. Ramsay. Sweeter than the 
dawn of day. W. Ward's Gentle Shepherd. Sweet as the 
blooming day. A. Cowley. — as the rose's spirit, or violet's 



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cheek on which the morning leaves a tear at parting. J. Shirley. 
Sweeter than the fragrance of the morning. Anthony Brown. 
— than an April morn, or May day's silver fragrant thorn. /. 
Miller. — than a morn in May. Recreation for Ingenious Head 
Pieces ; Robin Hood, a Musical Entertainment. Sweet as 
April. Poems on State Affairs.— as May. Herrick, Carew, fy 
others. — as the smiling May. W. Thompson. Sweeter than 
the breath of May. Sad Shepherd. Sweet as the fragrant 
breath of genial May. J. G. Cooper. — as the breath of spring. 
Hayley. Sweeter than the morning dew. /. Shirley, J. B. 
Rogers. Sweet as the dew-drop of morning. James Cobb. 
Sweeter than the morning dew falling in May on lilies. Glap- 
thome. Sweet as morning dew upon a rose. T. Middleton. — 
as the dew, the spangled child of morn. Potter, in Poetical 
Calendar. — as dew-drops on the flowery lawns when the sky 
openSv Tickell. — as dew-drops that linger on the violet. Lan- 
don. — as dews of summer weeping, in tears the rosebuds steep- 
ing. Burns. Sweeter than pearly dews that scent the lawn. 
N. Lee. Sweet as refreshing dews or summer showers to the 
long parching thirst of drooping flowers. Gay. — as cooling 
dew comes to the breast of scorched autumn. J. Jones. Dew, 
sweeter far than that which hangs like chains of pearl on Her- 
mon hill. G. Peele. Dew, sweeter than that the sun when 
shining o'er the Eastern hills exhales from the carnation buds. 
C. Bullock. Tears, sweeter than the jessamine's dew. B. 
Martyn. Sweet as the tears that the dews of the night o'er 
the landscape distil. B. Barton. — as vernal air. Falconer. — as 
summer air. L. Hunt, M. A. Browne. Sweet and clear as 
the more rarified and subtil air. Jonson. Sweeter than Au- 
rora's air when she paints the lilies fair. Recreation for Inge- 
nious Head Pieces. Sweet as the air the phoenix does expire 
in. Tatham. Sweet as those evening airs that gently blow, 
where the rich fragrant Eastern spices grow. Dryden's Miscel- 
lany. — as the breath of the twilight hour when the dew awa- 
kens the rose's power. Landon. — as the winds that gently fly to 
sweep the spring's enamelled floor. C. Cotton. — as the Ara- 






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bian winds. T. Scott, Christopher Bulloch. — as Arabian winds 
when fruits are ripe. Beaumont fy Fletcher. Not blest Arabia 
when her spices flow and load the western breezes with their 
spoils, is half so sweet. Mrs. Rowe. Sweeter than Syrian 
winds, when nought but myrrh and bysse perfume them. Play, 
Bastard. Sweet as the winds that blow from the blest shores 
where fragrant spices grow. Duke. Sweeter than a gentle 
south-west wind which comes creeping over flowery fields and 
shadowed waters in the extreme heat of summer. Sir P. Sidney. 
— than aromatic winds which blow o'er spicy groves. J. G. 
Cooper. — than eastern winds that o'er the flowery gardens 
blow. Duke of Newcastle. Sweet as west-winds breathing 
o'er a bank of violets. W. Thompson. — as the sound of gales 
amid green oziers in the winding vales. Scott of Amrvell. — as 
the breathing gale. Ossian. Sweet her breath as the gale of 
spring. Ibid. Her breath was sweeter than the morning gale 
stolen from the rose or violet's dewy leaves. R. Dodsley. 
Sweeter than the gale from new-born flowers. Jephson. Sweet 
as the downy-pinioned gale that roves to gather fragrance in 
Arabian groves. Beattie. As sweet a scent as Arabian gales 
breathe on blushing roses. Douvilly. Breath, sweet as Ara- 
bian gales that catch the odours of the fields they fan. B. 
Martyn. Sweet as the soft gales whose vernal wings fan the 
first opening flowers. G. Keate. — as the soft, the sunny breeze 
that fans the golden orange grove. Poetical Calendar. — as the 
gentle breeze that fans the fragrant bosom of the spring. 
Dodsley s Collection. — as the vernal breeze. C. Johnson. 
Sweeter than the breeze of morning. S. Bamford. Sweet as 
the vernal breeze salutes the bowers when the light blossoms 
fall in snowy showers. Poem, Abelard to Eloisa. — as are the 
breezes breathed amidst the groves of ripening spices in the 
height of day. Behn. — as the breeze from spicy grove. Fair 
Isabel of Cotehele, a Poem. — as the breath of musky breeze. 
Ibid. Breath, as sweet as is the welcome breeze that does re- 
store life to man half-dead before. Behn. Sweeter than roses, 
or cool evening's breeze on a warm flowery shore. Play, Pau- 



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sanias. Breath sweet as balmy zephyrs. Gay. Sweet as new 
blossoms when the morning air blows gently on them. Beau- 
mont ty Fletcher. Sweeter than when through scented air, gay 
bloom the apple boughs. Charlotte Brookes 's Reliques of Irish 
Poetry. Sweet as the fragrance which perfumes the zephyr's 
wing. Glover. More sweet then Zephyr when he leaves the 
rose. Paradise of Coquettes, a Poem. Breath, sweet as odours 
blown by zephyrs o'er the vales. Motteux. Sweet as the 
breath of Flora when she lies in jasmine shades, and for young 
Zephyr sighs. Fenton. Sweeter than Flora, or her blooming 
flowers. Harriet Downing. Sweet as the chaplet blooming 
Flora weaves. Rome, a Poem. — as incense. R. Davenport, 
Duchess of Newcastle, fy others. — as the incense of the morn. 
C. Churchill. More sweet than breath of incense or than 
morning air. J. Banks. — than the smoke of incense. Duke of 
Newcastle. — than incense which to heaven ascends. Otway. — 
than balmy incense in the purple smoke. Sir W. Davenant. 
Sweet as frankincense. T. Shadwell. — as perfume. /. Day. 
She is sweeter than perfume itself. Shakespear. — than aromatic 
gums. E. Ward. Sweet as amber. Ibid. Sweeter than any 
precious nard. /. Skelton. — than myrrh. J. Shirley. — than 
myrrh, or all the spices in Panchaia. Marston. — than Indian 
spices. Rowley. A breath as sweet as the Arabian spice. 
Play, Alarm for London. Sweeter than cloves. Poetical Ca- 
lendar, G. Walker. — than cinnamon. M . Stevenson. Sweet as 
Scythian musk. Sir W. Jones. More sweet than all the 
odours of the East. R. Wilkinson. Her breath expires odours 
more sweet than issued from the trees of balm in paradise. 
Glapthorne. Sweet as the odour from the flowery green. A. 
Cherry, — as the balmy breath of Eastern groves. Goring. — as 
the fragrant groves in paradise. Durfey. Sweeter than the 
Circania's nest though built in Eastern groves of cinnamon. 
Sir W. Davenant. Thy breath is sweeter than the smoke as- 
cending from the phoenix' funeral pile. /. Shirley. Her breath 
is sweeter than the phoenix makes her altar when she is her 
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myrrh. G. Peele. Breezes, sweet as the phoenix' pyre. 
James Montgomery. Sweet as is the phoenix' nest. R. Cra- 
shaw. — as the purple smoke arising from the phoenix' fu- 
neral pile, or southern breath perfumed with all Arabia's 
spices. Play, Fatal Union. — as the perfumes that smoking 
rise from the dead phoenix' nest. Randolph. — as balm. 
G. Gascoigne, Shakespear, fy others. — as drops of balm. 
Jonson. — as the dew-fall of balm. Landon. — as a rose. Sir 
P. Sidney, Whetstone, Sf others. — as damask roses. Shake- 
spear, E. Ward, 8$ others. — as the fragrance of the damask 
rose. Jago. Sweeter than the damask rose when in her hottest 
fragrancy she glows, and the cool West her wafted odours 
blows. N. Lee. Sweet as are damask roses when they blow. 
C. Cotton. — as the damask rosebud newly born on verdant 
banks, where glassy rivers glide. A. Seward. — as a bed of 
roses. Durfey, Centlivre. Sweeter than banks of roses. 
Durfey. Sweet as the breath of roses. T. Rawlins. — as the 
rose that scents the gale. Sir W. Jones. No roses opening in 
a morning are half so sweet and soft. Behn. Not half so sweet 
the breath of opening roses when the dewy morn renews the 
garden's pride, while the glad sun calls out the blooming life 
of every flower. Mrs. Rowe. Sweet as the breath that open- 
ing roses yield. Friendship 's Offering. — as the opening roses. 
Fragments of Fingal, a Poem. — as blowing roses. C. Cotton, 
Dry den's Miscellany. — as new-blown roses are. Behn, Ramsay, 
ty others. — as blooming roses. Play, Different Widows. — as the 
maiden blossoms of a rose. Randolph. Sweet as roses, and 
as springs refreshing. Otway. Breath, sweet as a new-plucked 
rose. T. Dogget. Sweet as rose-buds in a summer's morn. 
Reuben Bourne. — as blushing rose-buds dipped in morning 
dew. E. Young. — as roses washed with morning dew. Sir W. 
Scott. — as the rose with orient dews o'erspread. J. Ogilvie. 
— as roses ere the morning sun has kissed their dew away. 
Behn. Sweeter than the morning rose. W. Rose. — than roses 
in the month of May. H. Ward. — than the rose on which the 
May its dew bestows. G. Jeffreys, in Poetical Calendar. Sweet 



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as a full-blown rose in summer mornings ere gentle breezes 
had blown off the pearls the dew had sprinkled on it. Duifey. 
The blushing rose-bud in its vernal bed 
By zephyrs fann'd, by glist'ring dew-drops fed, 
In June's gay morn that scents the ambient air, 
Was not more sweet, more innocent, or fair. A. Seward. 
Sweet as the opening budding rose. Ramsay. Sweet and 
lovely, fresh and fair, as when the budding rose doth first 
appear, when sunny beams in May make temperate air. Ha- 
rington. Sweeter than nature just refreshed by heaven, when 
opening buds lavish their grateful odours. R. Wilkinson. 
Sweet as the bud of the briar. Jonson. — as the bramble flower. 
Chaucer. — as violets. Sidney, Spenser, <^ others. — as double 
violets. Suckling. Breath more sweet than violet. Herrick. 
— than blue-eyed violets. N. Lee. Sweet as the deep blue 
violet. Landon. Her breath is sweeter than the bloom of 
violets. C. Johnson. The violet's perfumed and purple crest, 
or phoenix burning in its spicy nest, breathe not so sweet an 
odour. Banks. Sweeter than breath sent from the cowslip's 
bed, or fragrant banks with purple violets spread. Ibid. Sweet 
is thy breath as violets are when the balmy south wind blows. 
Thurlow. — as western wind breathes from the violets' fragrant 
beds when balmy dews Aurora sheds. /. G. Cooper. — as a 
lily. Play, Looking-glass. Sweet and fair as lilies are. W. 
Hett. — as the lily at evening's close. Burns. — as the lilies of 
the vale. Miscellany of Poems, by J. Husbands. — as lilies of 
the valley. Fugitive Miscellany. — as jessamine. A. Cherry. 
— as the jessamine's flower. Shenstone. Sweeter than the hya- 
cinth's perfume. Universal Magazine. Sweet as the jonquil's 
bloom when eve bedews its head. John Clare. — as opening 
snow-drops. Sorrows of Love, a Poem. — as the primrose peeps 
beneath the thorn. Goldsmith. Sweeter than primrose, or 
the clover-grass. Gay. — than the growing bean. Sir P. Sidney. 
Sweet as the bean blossom. Play, Country Wedding. — as the 
blossomed bean's perfume by morning breezes shed. John 
Clare. Sweeter than fragrant fields of asphodel. W. Thomp« 

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son. Sweet as the flowers that o'er the damasked meads to 
the new sun unfold their velvet heads. Potter, in Poetical 
Calendar. Sweeter than rising flowers that deck untrodden 
plains. M. Pilkington. Sweet as breathing flowers. Garth. 
Sweeter than flowerets in their pride. Portal. Sweet as the 
flowers' first breath. H. Vaughan. — as the breath of flowers. 
Landon. — as after gentle showers, the breath is of some thou- 
sand flowers. Sir P. Sidney. — as the breath of morning flowers. 
Quarles. — as spring-time flowers. Shakespear. — as vernal 
flowers. Jacob. — as flowers in May. James Howel. — as the 
May-morn flower. The Spanish Lady. — as the new unfolded 
bud swelled by the early dew. Sir W. Davenant. Sweeter 
than buds unfolded in a shower. Ibid. Sweet as the blos- 
soms after showers. Poetical Calendar. — as new-blown breath 
of opening flowers. A. Hill. — as the flowers in bloom of 
spring. Chatterton. Sweeter than the spring's ungathered 
flower. Sir W. Davenant. — sweet as buds and flowers when 
dews of May or April showers begin or consummate the 
spring. Ibid. — as the April blossom to the bee. /. Hogg. 
Sweeter than the opening flower that trembles with the morn- 
ing's silver dew. W. Hawkins. Sweeter than blooms that 
scent the vernal air. M. Pilkington. — than the flower that 
scents the gale. /. Hogg. Sweet as flowers to the honey- 
bee. Polwhele's Theocritus. — as the blossoming hawthorn in 
May. J. G. Cooper. — as the dewy milk-white thorn. Burns. 
— as honeysuckle. J. Smith, C. Dibdin. — as woodbine flowers. 
Play, Master Turbulent.— as Hybla's thyme. Adams, in Dry- 
den's Miscellany. — as thyme. John Clare. Sweeter than the 
ripened hay. Gay. — than the new-mown hay. C. Johnson. — 
than new-made hay. A. Marvel, Somervile. — than new hay. 
Ward's Gentle Shepherd. Sweet as the evening among the new 
hay. Burns. — as music. Poetical Calendar. Sounds, sweeter 
than seraphs' harps. Author of Ellen Fitzarthur. Music, 
sweeter than a seraph's lyre soothing a dying saint. Play, Gon- 
zanga. Voice, sweet as seraph's song. Coleridge. Sweet as 
the harmony of hymning seraphim. J. Hervey. Sounds, sweet 



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as an angel's voice. Play, Sulieman. Sweeter than angels 
sing. Dodsley's Collection. Sweeter to my parting soul than 
songs of angels. Play, Prince of Tunis. — than angels' songs. 
F. Lynch. Sweet as the music of the rolling spheres. R. Glynn. 
Thy voice more sweet than music's melting sound. Poetical 
Calendar. — than music in her softest strains. J. Hervey. — than 
the loud music of the warbling spheres. Ibid. Tunes, more 
sweet than moving of the spheres. Dekker. — than the Muses' 
song. Poetical Calendar. — than the Muses and Apollo sing. 
TV. S. Landor. Speak in a strain more sweet than that of the 
Pierian maids. Fragments, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Sweet 
as the syren's song those accents fall, and charm me to my 
ruin. Southern. Whose every accent sweetlier sounds than 
choirs of syrens' sense-bereaving notes. Glapthorne. Voice, 
as sweet as syrens' songs. Centlivre. Lays, more sweet than 
the seaborn syrens'. Greene's Arcadia. Voice, sweet as the 
syren's when she breathes her music to calm moon-light seas. 
Landon. Sweeter than mermaid's song. Spenser. — than mer- 
maid's strains, are borne thy hymns along the ocean. /. Wilson, 
author of Isle of Palms. — than the mermaid's chant beguiling 
the false wave. Thurlow. Music, sweet as lover's song. D. 
Terry. She tunes a lay sweet as the darkling Philomel of May. 
John Duncomb. Sweet as Philomela's lay. Ogilvie. Sounds, so 
sweet that even night's own bird ceases to sing his vesper 
song, to listen. M. A. Browne. Sweet as the matin hymn 
the glad birds sing. Potter, in Poetical Calendar. — as notes 
along the vale breathed from the warbling pipe. Gay* — as the 
early pipe along the dale when hawthorns bud. Thompson, 
in Dodsley's Collection. — as ditties highly penned, sung by a 
fair queen in a summer's bower with ravishing division to her 
lute. Shakespear. Voice, sweet as the dulcet lute. Aurelia, 
a Poem. Sweet as the wild Eolian lyre. Hunt. 
Sweet as Eolian sounds that gently rise, 
As blows the fragrant breeze, or languid dies ; 
Now tremulously sweet the Zephyr's wing 
Touches with tones of heaven the trembling string. 

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Breathe music sweet and resistless as the golden lyre of beamy- 
haired Apollo. Mrs. Cowley. A voice as sweet and tuneable 
as young Apollo's lyre. Cumberland. Music, sweeter to my 
ears than the soft lyre's most artificial melody. Play, Codrus. 
Music, sweeter to the soul than all the strains of artful har- 
mony. B. Hoole. Sweet as the passing wind that blows wild 
music through the waving trees. S. Bamford. — as the sigh of 
the spring gale. Landon. — as the song of birds. Byron. — as 
the songsters of the air. T. E. Hook. — as the songsters of the 
vernal year. A. Seward. — as the voice of thrushes in the spring. 
Chatterton. — as the thrush that warbles in the vale. W. Thomp- 
son. — as the nightingale. G. Peele, J. Worsdale. Voice, 
sweeter than the nightingale. Fielding. Holcroft. Sweeter 
than sweet Philomel. Daniel Hayes. Voice, sweet as the 
Lesbian nightingales. G. P. Bromley. Sweet as the love-la- 
boured song of nightingales. W. Thompson. Sweet, short, and 
broken as divided strains of nightingales. M. R. Mitford. 
Sweet as the nightingale's love-soothing strain heard by still 
waters on the moonlight plain. Scott of Amwell. — as the war- 
bler on the moonlight spray. A. Seward. Sweeter than Phi- 
lomela's song. Miscellany of Poems, by J. Husbands ; E. 
Jones. Voice, sweeter than the early lark's. Thomas Hurl- 
stone. Sweet as the tune of morn- saluting lark. L. Theobald. 
Sweeter than skylark's carol. Dirnond. Sweet as the towering 
lark's mellifluous song. Ogilvie. Sweet as when blossoms 
deck the infant year the woodlark warbles o'er the verdant 
plains. G. E. Howard. Sweet as the ring-dove's plaintive 
moan. M. Robinson. — as the turtle in the vocal grove that to 
her murmuring mate remurmurs love. Miscellany of Poems, by 
J. Husbands. Sweeter than the linnet's tune. A. Seward. 

Not music's thrilling pow'r, 

No, not the vocal mistress of the bow'r, 

When slow she warbles from the blossom'd spray 

In liquid blandishment her ev'ning lay, 

Such soft insinuating sweetness knows, 

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The laugh as glad, the step as light, 
The song as sweet, the glance as bright, 
As the laugh, step, and glance, and song, 
Which to young happiness belong. Landon* 
Sweet as honey. Sacred Script., J. Palsgrave, § others. Sweet 
to the soul as honey to the taste. Pope. Sweet to the soul as 
manna to the taste. W. Thompson. — as the honey of Hybla. 
Shakespear. Sweeter than the honey of Mount Hybla. Play, 
Alexander fy Timotheus. Sweet as Hybla honey. W. Thomp- 
son, T. Morton. — as Hybla honey, or Arabian dew. Sir W. 
Davenant. Words sweet as honey from his mouth distilled. 
Dryden. Sweeter than honey dropping from the comb. J. 
Banks. Sweet as the honey-dew flowed her enchanting tongue. 
Choice of Hercules, Edinburgh Collection. — as juice of bee. 
Play, All Vows Kept. Sweeter than that Hyblsean juice 
the attic bee stored in her cell for Jove's nativity. J. Howell. 
— than the sweet ambrosial hive. E. Young. Sweet as the 
bag of the bee. Jonson. Sweeter than nectar. Spenser. — than 
nectar or ambrosia. Play, Locrine. Sweet as the cane juice. 
Grainger. — as liquorice root. Chaucer. — as sugar. Poetical 
Calendar. — as a sugar cane. Foote. — as the manna that from 
heaven distilled. Play, Schoolboy's Mask. Sweeter than 
Hybla. Dryden. — than everlasting groves of spices when the 
soft winds display the opening buds. Behn. Sweet as the 
meadows after rain and but new mown. Jonson. — like an 
April meadow. Ramsay. Sweeter than the fields in May, 
Coffey. Sweet as the arbour's cooling shade. Ogilvie. — as 
to be lulled by falling waters. Byron. How soft, how sooth- 
ing sounds the gentle breeze, sweet as the murmuring waves 
of distant seas. Rome, a Poem. Sweeter than the murmur of 
the distant waterfall. A. L. A'ikin. Voice, sweet as the mur- 
muring of summer streams beneath the moonlight's glance. 
G. Croly. Sweet as the desert's fountain wave to lips just 
cooled in time to save. Byron. — as the waters of the limpid 
rill. Mickle's Lusiad. — as the vintage when the showering 
grapes in bacchanal profusion reel to earth purple and gush- 



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ing. Byron. — as persuasion. Savage.— as the earliest words of 
children. Byron.— &s pillage to soldiers. Ibid. — as prize-mo- 
ney to seamen. Ibid. — as the blush of bashfulness. Ibid. — as 
Hebe. P. Pindar. Sweeter than Cytherea's breath. SJiaJce- 
spear. Sweet as the breath of love. A. L. Allan. — as the 
slumbers of the lowly hind. Dodsleys Collection. Sweet and 
calm as the sleep of a child. Landon. — as milk. G. PuttenJiam, 
Sotheby's Oberon. — as the poets' numbers. N. Rowe. Sweeter 
than pardon's voice, or angels' songs. Ab. Portal. 

SWEETNESS. A greater sweetness on these lips there grows, 
than breath shut out from a new folded rose. Howard Sf Dry- 
den's Indian Queen. 

SWELL like a sea. Watts. Swelling, loud and boundless as the 
seas. C. Pitt. Swelling like the ocean. Jonson. — like the 
wave. T. Moore. — like a torrent. Lansdorvne. — like a stopped 
torrent, or a teeming cloud. Faulkland. 

SWIFT as thought. Chaucer, SJiahespear, fy others. — as man's 
thought. DeJcker. — as mortal thought. Gay. — as frenzy 
thoughts. ShaJcespear. — as light thoughts. A . Cowley. — as 
quick thought. N. Lee. — as the winged thought. Poole's Par- 
nassus. Swifter than the glance of thought. Sir W. Jones. — 
than thoughts of love. Thurlow. Swift as meditation or the 
thoughts of love. ShaJcespear. I will follow thee with swifter 
speed than meditation. Play, Swetnam arraigned. — as con- 
ception. Bruce. Swift as was my will. Play, Lear and Ids 
DaugJiters. — as desire. Pix, TicJcell, fy others. — as the mo- 
tions of desire. Watts. — as the motions of the mind. C. 
Churchill. Swift as a wish the missionary flies. Garth. — as 
my wishes. Ravenscroft, Chatterton, fy otliers. — as a lover's 
wish. Southern. Swift as the rapture of a lover's hope. P, 
Francis. Swifter than our wishes. Play, Second Maiden's 
Tragedy. Swift as a dream. Pitt. Swifter than fame. Play, 
Wars of Cyrus. Swift as fear. Parnell. Swifter than the 
wings of fear. R. Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Fly swift as revenge. 
Gildon. Swift as glance of eye. Spenser. Swifter than sight. 






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Motteux. — than sight can spy, Mickle's Lusiad. Swift as the 
wheel of nature rolls. Watts. — as time. Chapman, Sir W. 
Davenant, fy others. Swifter than time, or motion. Milton. 
Swift as time, or thought. Otway. — as the rushing wing of 
time. N. Drake.— as flying sounds. Preston's App. Rhodius. 
— as word that from her went. Spenser. — as words can reach 
the ear. Montgomery. — as speech. Play, Damon fy Pythias. 
Run swift as the sun. Centlivre. Swift as the sun revolves 
the day. Watts, Swifter than the chariot of the sun. Sylves- 
ter. — than the hot fiery steeds that threw ambitious Phaeton 
from his pride. /. Kirk. — than the fiery sun. Beaumont ty 
Fletcher. Swifter in motion than earth's circling sun. Play, 
Youth's Comedy. Swift as Phoebus' rays. John Duncombe, in 
Poetical Calendar. — as a ray shot from the rising sun. Draper, 
in Poetical Calendar. Swift and bright like a sunbeam. Sir 
W. Scott. — as the wings of morn. Cowley. — as the sparkle of 
a glancing star. Milton. — as stars down shoot. G. Peele. — as 
a shooting star in autumn thwarts the night. Milton. — as the 
shooting star that gilds the night with rapid transient blaze. 
Somervile. Swifter than the shooting of a star. G. Croly. — 
as a comet whirls to whence it rose. Campbell. — as light. 
Tillotson, Shenstone, Sf others. — as darting light. Blackmore. 
— as streaming light. The Shamrock. Dart swift as sunbeams 
through the skies. Ibid. Fly as swiftly as the wings of light. 
Davenant. Swift as the light on the wing of the morning. /. 
Bird. — as the race of light. A. Cowley. — as the journeys of 
the light. Ibid. Swift and universal as the beams of light. 
Sir W. Davenant. Swift as a ray of light he shot away. 
Blackmore. — as descending rays of ruddy light. Chatterton. — 
as lightning. Shakespear, Armin, fy others.— -as the rapid light- 
ning. Play, Herminius 8? Espasia, by Hart. — as fire or light- 
ning. Lidgate, Swifter than Jove's lightning. T. Heywood. 
Swift as the lightning's flash. Akenside, A. Dow, fy others. 
Swifter than the lightning's vollied flash. C. Lloyd's Alfieris 
Plays. Swift and momentous as the lightning's flash that 
suddenly appears and vanishes as soon as seen. Doynes Tasso. 



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Swift as lightnings flash along the sky. Hoole's Ariosto. — as 
the flash which through the tempest flies. Translation of 
Voltaire's Henriade. — as the lightning's blast. Montgomery. 
Swifter than the lightning's gleam. Preston's App. Rhodius, 
W. Whitehead. — than the flight of lightning. Mays Lucan. 
With winged expedition, swift as the lightning glance, he ex- 
ecutes his errand on the wicked. Milton. 

Swift as light that flies 

On wings of death o'er black tempestuous skies, 
Charg'd with the shafts of unrelenting fate. /. Bird. 
Swift as the momentary wing of lightning. Crashaw. — as the 
winged lightning. F. Burney. Swifter than the lightning's 
glance. F. Hoyland, Sothehy. Swift as the lightning in a win- 
try night from pitchy darkness vibrates sudden light. Preston's 
A pp. Rhodius. — as the lightning of the storm. J. Bird. — as 
the lightning shoots its angry glance. T. Day. — as the glan- 
cing lightning flies. Hooles Ariosto. — as the lightning glancing 
through the skies. Blackmore. — as is the lightning's fire. 
Chapman. Swifter than is the lightning's flame. Play, Costly 
Whore ; Mickles Lusiad. The lightning's flame was not so 
swift. Harington. Swift as the lightning's flames. L. Theo- 
bald. — as the lightning's penetrating flame. A. Seward. — as 
the lightning's rapid flame darts on the unsuspecting sight. 
Langhorne. — as the blaze of lightning. Play, Faithful Gene- 
ral. — as the lightning's blast. Anthony Brown. — as the light- 
nings dart from pole to pole. Translation of Voltaire's Henriade. 
Shall swifter than the forked lightning dart. Christopher An- 
stey. More swift and terrible than lightning. G. G. Douvilly. 
Swift as lightning, and as piercing too. T. Shipman. Swift 
and silent as lightning. Play, Orgula. Swift as the lightning 
it shall move, and be as fatal too. Watts. Fly as swift as doth 
the lightning, or the breath of heaven. Marlowe. Swifter than 
lightning, winds, or winged time. N. Rowe. Swift as the vol- 
lied lightning. Poem, Charlemagne, a translation. — as the vol- 
lied thunder. Cumberland. — as the blue fire or bolt from 
heaven. C. Johnson. — as the bolts of fate. Pasquin. — as the 



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bolt of angry Jove. Somervile. Swift as meteors glide aslope 
a summer's eve. Fenton. Swifter than meteors glide, or wings 
of wind. Jephson. Swift as a meteor darts. W. Sotheby's 
Oberon. — as the meteor courses through the gloom. N. Drake. 
Fly swift as a meteor through a stormy sky. /. Bird. Swift 
as a falling meteor. Dryden, Southey. — as a shooting meteor. 
Savage. — as a fiery meteor. Cumberland. — as the fiery meteor 
from on high shoots to its goal. Lisle. — as the momentary me- 
teors sent across the uncalm but beauteous firmament. T. 
Moore. Swifter than the meteor's glance. Cumberland. Swift 
as fire. Jonson, J. Montgomery. — as rushing fire. Milman. — 
as the fires of heaven. Pollok. Swift as the dazzling fire that 
cleaves the cloud she darts. Poem, Charlemagne, a translation. 
— as heaven's quick darted flame. TV. Hamilton. — as glan- 
cing flame. T. Moore. — as darted flame. E. Young. — as hea- 
ven's quick darted flame. W. Hamilton. More swift than 
flashing flames. Play, Hippolitus. Fly swift as Eurus. Aken- 
side. Swift as a storm. BlacJcmore, Dennis, fy others. — as a 
bursting storm. Play, Faithful General. Swift and fierce as 
wintry storm. /. Philips. Swift as the storm by rapid whirl- 
winds driven, quick let him fly the impending wrath of heaven. 
(Edipus, in Greek Tragic Theatre. — as a tempest. E. Prest- 
wich, Goring, fy others. Swift and fierce as tempest from the 
north. Cowley, in Dryden *s Miscellany. — as the tempest, or 
the eagle's flight. Doyne's Tasso. — as the tempest travels on 
the deep. Campbell. Swift as hurricanes, the squadrons sweep 
the plain. C. Colton. — as a whirlwind. Barnaby Barnes, Dry- 
den, fy others. — as a rapid whirlwind. G. Canning's Anti-Lu- 
cretius. Urge his course swifter than whirlwinds. Murphy. 
Swifter than whirlwind flies the leaden death. /. Hervey. — as the 
whirlwind sweeps along the skies. C. Fox. — as the whirlwind 
drives Arabia's [scattered sands. Prior. — as the whirlwind's 
blast, or lightning's glare. Preston's App. Rhodius. — as the 
wind. Lidgate, Spenser, fy others. Swift and subtle as the 
wind. Churchill. Swift as the trackless winds. C. Lennox. 
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the viewless wind. Poem, Margaret of Anjou ; Southey. Swift 
as western wind. Harington. More swift than whirling wes- 
tern wind up-tumbling clouds in sky. Play, Hippolitus. — than 
unimprisoned winds that sweep o'er ocean's face. J. B. Purges. 
Swift as northern wind. R. Gould. — as the keen northern wind, 
and as invisible. James Boaden. — as the winds dispel the fleet- 
ing mists. Somervile. Swifter than the northern Boreas with 
whirling blast and storm of raging night driveth far away and 
puts the clouds to flight. Jasper Heywood. Swift as fleeting 
wind. G. Peele, E. Smedley. — as the south wind sweeps the 
Arabian main. C. Fox. — as the wind that sweeps the desert 
plain. Somervile. — as the raging wind. Miscellany of Poems, 
by J. Husbands. — as the roaring winds. Chatterton. More 
swift-paced than winged winds. Fraunce. Swift as the winged 
winds. Dekker. — as the wings of wind. E. Sherburne, — as 
gusts of wind. Chapman. Swift as break the winds from out 
the Eolian caves. John Jones. Swifter than winds that through 
the skies thick driving snows and gathered tempests bear. /, 
Hughes. — than winds along the champaign borne at liberty they 
fly. N. Rowe. — than winds or rays of light I'll fly. Wandes- 
ford. — than the northern blast. /. Hcrvey, Preston's App. 
Rhodius. Swift as the gales. T. Penrose. — as the strongest 
gale that blows. Jacob. More swift than gales that sweep the 
plain. Smollett. Swift as the motion of the rapid breeze. Pye. 
Swifter glides than Zephyrus. Sylvester. Swift as air. 
Cockain, Chatterton. — as fleeting air. W.Browne. — as the 
ethereal fluid of the sky. G. Canning. More swift than 
ether, light, and fire. Ibid. Swift as a shadow. Shakespear. 
Swifter than shadows fleeting o'er the fields. N. Lee. Swift 
as the shadows of disparted clouds across the surface of 
the golden field by driving winds are hurried. W. Hodson. 
Swift as the rattling hail, or fleecy snows, drive through the 
skies when Boreas fiercely blows. Pope. — as the flying clouds 
distilling rain. Chatterton. Swifter than clouds before the wind. 
Jenyns. — than roll the wind-driven clouds along the middle 
sky. W. Hamilton. His arms swift as a deluge overspread 



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the land. Goring. Swift as the current of the swiftest stream. 
Sylvester. — as a mountain torrent rushing forth from the bleak 
caverns of their native North. Poetical Calendar. Swift and 
clear as mountain stream. Rome, a Poem. — as an arrow. Syl- 
vester, Somervile. — as an arrow in its flight. Southey. Fly 
swift as an arrow from a bow. Fielding, Southey, fy others. 
Swift as an arrow when winged from a bow. R. Drury. — as 
the arrow from Apollo's bow. Mickle's Lusiad.—as an arrow 
from a Scythian bow. /. Banks. Swifter than the arrow from 
the Tartar's bow. Shakespear. Swift like the arrow shot 
from Parthian strings. Play, Youth's Comedy. — as an arrow 
from a Parthian bow. Dryden. — as winged arrows fly from 
Parthian bows. T. May. — as an Indian arrow flies. Watts. — 
as the winds or Scythian arrows. May. — as an arrow from a 
Cretan string. G. Sandys. Swifter than arrow from a bow. 
Chaucer. Swift as an arrow out of bow. Boyle, Earl of 
Orrery, E. Ward. — as an arrow from a warrior's bow. J. .Bird. 
— as the winged arrow from the Tartar's bow. C. Fox. — as 
feathered arrow flies from archer's bow. Poetical Calendar. 
— as an arrow from the sounding yew. Hoole's Ariosto. — as 
a shaft. Sylvester. — as shaft from bow. Fairfax, J. Taylor, — 
as a flying shaft. Garth. — as a Parthian shaft. Hoole's Metas- 
tasio. — as threatening shaft from vexed Diana's bow. Sir W. 
Davenant. — as an arrow o'er the battle-field, from heaven she 
darted. Mickle's Lusiad. — as a shaft, or winged wind she flew. 
Dry den. — as shaft from Indian bow. Churchill. — as shaft 
from Russian bow. Sylvester. — as shafts fly from a Turkish 
bow. Sylvester. Swifter than Parthian back-shot shaft, or 
stone from Balearic slinger. T. May. Fly swift as Scythian 
dart. Congreve. Swiftly as a Parthian dart. Blackmore. Swiftly 
as a well driven javelin flies. G. Sandys. Swift as a pile 
hurled by the Delphic God barbed with destruction, comes our 
ruin on. J. Bancroft. — as winged bird. Fairfax. Swifter than 
eagles. Sacred Script., Jasper Mayne's Lucian, ty others. — than 
the eagle's noon-day flight. W. S. Walker. — than the eagles of 
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Ossian. — as an eagle cuts the air. Watts. — as eagles cut the 
yielding air. Soame Jenyns. — as the eagle's wing. Sir W. Da- 
venant. Fly more swift than eagles through the sky. M. Pil- 
kington. Swift as the rapid eagle cleaves the skies. Falconer. 
— as eagles in pursuit of prey. Sacred Script., Parnell. — as 
an eagle hasteth to his prey. Sacred Script, — as the eagle 
hasting to her prey. Sylvester. — as an eagle darted on her 
prey. G. Townsend, J. Bird. — as an eagle to defend her young. 
B. Martyn. — as the bird of Jove. Play, Hecuba. — as a vulture 
leaping on his prey. Pope. — as hawks. Paradise of Dainty 
Devices. More swift than hawks when they pursue the pant- 
ing doves. Thomas Hogg. — than the falcon. W. Strode. — 
than the falcon's flight. W. S. Walker. Swift as the falcon's 
flight his motions were. A. Bicknell. Swift as the falcon's 
flight when he pursues the dove. Prometheus, in Greek Tragic 
Theatre. Not half so swift the sailing falcon flies, that drives 
a turtle through the liquid skies. Pope. Swift as a falcon 
drives on the wheeling hare. Burns. Swift as the falcon's 
wing I saw her fly. Gay. Swifter than the stout ger-falcon 
stoopeth at the heron. Sylvester. Swift as through liquid air 
the falcon sweeps, when to the breeze resigned from high she 
springs and darts unmoving on her levelled wings. Preston's 
App. Rhodius. Swifter than falcons through the trackless air 
my eager thoughts shall fly to your obedience. Jephson. Swift 
as any swallow. Metrical Romance, Richard Cceur de Lion. — 
as swallow flies. Shakespear, G. Peele, fy others. — as swallow 
in her flight. Spenser. — as swallows post. T. Ward. More 
swift than swallow cleaves the liquid sky. Spenser. Swift as 
a swallow sweeps the liquid way. Pope. — swift as the swallow, 
or that Greekish nymph (Camilla) that seemed to overfly the 
ears of corn. G. Peele. Fly swifter than the dove who seeks 
his absent mate. Play, Marriage Promise. Not swifter from 
the falcon flies the dove. Hoole's Ariosto. Swift as a sea-bird 
darting o'er the deep. W. S. Walker. — as a roe. Spenser, G. 
Puttenham, fy others. — as the wild roe. Drayton. — as a roe 
on the hill. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. — as a roe on the 



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desert. Ossian. Swift and nimble as the roe. Drayton. Swift 
as is the light-foot roe. Play, Wily Beguiled. — as the young 
roe that bounds along the plain. N. Cotton. — as a roe flies 
o'er the hills. Watts. — as the boundings of the youthful roe. 
Chatterton. — as the bounding stag she wings her pace. A. 
Philips. — as a stag. Pope. Swifter than stags. /. Hughes. 
Swift as chased stags. Spenser. — as breathed stags. Shake- 
spear. — as parched stags to cooling waters run. Oldmixon. — 
as the roebuck, or the wind. Drydens Miscellany. Swifter 
than bucks. Mayne's Lucian. More swift-paced than a hart. 
Fraunce. Run swifter than a hart. Dekker. Swifter are they 
in pace than light-foot hart. Play, Wars of Cyrus. Swift as 
bounding hart. Poetical Calendar. Swift as the hart from 
her pursuing train, climbs the steep rock and flies along the 
plain. Ogilvie. — as chased harts before the hunters fly. N. 
Lee. — as any buck in chase. Spenser. — as hinds in chase. 
Parnell. Swift as the mountain deer he sped. Laiighorne. — 
as the wounded deer they spring away. Mickle's Lusiad. 
Swifter than chased deer. Play, Sicilides. Swift as the elk. 
Chatterton. — as a doe. Play, Amintas. — as a hind. George 
Thornley, J. Banks. — as the mountain hind. J. G. Cooper. 
Swifter than starting hinds. N> Lee. — than the bounding hind. 
Jenyns. — than the bounding fawn. Alfred the Great, an Ora- 
torio. — than hart, or hind, or roe. Weber's Old Metrical Ro- 
mances. — than the lion rushes from his den. J. Hervey. Swift 
as a lion terrible and bold, that sweeps the fields, depopulates 
the fold. Pope. Swift and wild as a robbed tigress. Dryden. 
Swift as young lambs when the fierce wolf they fly. Duke. 
Swifter than the leopards. Sacred Script. Swift as a grey- 
hound o'er the space he flies. Hoole's Ariosto. — as a greyhound 
springing on his prey. Sotheby's Oberon. Swifter than the 
courser scours the plain, or the winged galley cleaves the 
yielding main. Greene 8f Pye's Pindar. Swift as the affrighted 
herd scud o'er the plain when frequent through the sky flash 
the fierce lightnings. Southey. — as Pegasus. Marlowe, T. Hey- 
wood, Sf others. More swift of pace than winged Pegasus in 



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all his pride. Play, Taming of a Shrew. — than a post. Sacred 
Script., John Taylor. Swift as an express. W. Cowper. Fly 
swifter than nimble-footed Mercury. J. Tatham. Swiftly 
move as Mercury descending from above. N. Lee. Swift as 
Jove's messenger. Waller. — as the winged messenger of Jove. 
J. Sterling. — as winged angels. James Hogg. — as the various 
goddess when through the yielding air she darts along and 
with refracted rays paints the gay clouds, celestial messenger, 
charged with the high behests of heaven's great queen. So- 
mervile. — as Camilla flying o'er the main, or lightly skimming 
o'er the dewy plain. Sir W. Jones. Swiftly as Syrians when 
they charge in war. Sir W. Davenant. Swift as cannon's shot. 
Quarles. Swifter than wind, or cannon shot, or thunder. Syl- 
vester. Swift as the bullet bursting from the gun. G. A. 
Stevens. Swifter than a pestilence. Settle, G. Powell. — than 
plagues the venomed breath went forth. Play, Faithful Ge- 
neral. Swift as contagion, or epidemic plagues. C. Macklin. 
Swiftly like sudden death. Lansdowne, E. Moore. Swifter 
than a weaver's shuttle. Sacred Script. 

SWIM like a fish. Harington. — like a duck. ShaJcespear. 



T. 

I ALKATIVE as parrots. T. Nabbs. — like one who is much 
more able to relate, than others can endure to hear with pa- 
tience. Poole's Parnassus. — like one who constantly drops 
out of his mouth whatever is poured in at his ears. Ibid. — 
like one whose talk at table is like Benjamin's mess, five times 
more than that of the rest of the company. Ibid. 

TALL as the Anakims. Sacred Script. More tall than daring 

Atlas. T.Rawlins. Tall as cedar tree. G. Puttenham. as 

the cedar. Savage. — as forest cedars. Montgomery. — as the 
cedar of the mountain. Southey. — as the cedar rising o'er the 
wood. Translation of Voltaire's Henriade. — as the palm tree, 



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Miss Lee. — as a poplar. Dryden ; Play, Love's Dream. Tall 
and upright as a pine. C. Cotton. Tall as the pines which 
grace the mountain's side. Sorrows of Love, a Poem. — as the 
mainmast of a first-rate. Macpherson. — as is the mast of 
some great admiral. Southey. — as a May-pole. A. Hill, M. 
P. Andrews. — as hop-poles. G. Colman. — as cypresses. S. 
Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Literature. 

TAME as patience. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as fear. Ibid. — as 
innocency. Ibid. Tamer than sleep. Shakespear, Sir W. Da- 
venant. Tame as a dormouse. J. Webster. — as a lamb. Lid- 
gate, PasquiVs Nightcap, fy others. — as doves. Sir W.Davenant. 
— as geese. Pope, 

TAPER as a cypress. S. Rousseau's Flowers of Persian Literature. 

TART as wines upon the fret. W. Cowper. 

TASTELESS as a bundle of hay to a hungry lion. South. 

TEDIOUS as is the night before some festival, to an impatient 
child. Shakespear, Otway. — -as a twice-told tale. Pope. — as 
a siege. Marmion. — as a tired horse. Shakespear. — as a rail- 
ing wife. Ibid. 

TEMPERATE as the morn. Shakespear. 

TEMPESTUOUS like the sea. Marlowe.— z.% the northern blast. 
Hayley. 

TENDER as melting pity. Gildon. — as a youthful mother's joy. 
Southey. Tender and good as angels. C. Burnaby. Tender 
and careful as a guardian angel. Centlivre. — as infancy. Shake- 
spear. I feel a tender interest in your welfare, tender as 
fathers feel. W. Mason. Tender and warm as lovers' thoughts. 
Buckingham. — as the vows of parting friends. G. Sewell. — as 
a lamb. W. T. Moncrieff. — as the lambs that play in sunny 
morns. Dryden's Miscellany. — as the constant dove. Poetical 
Calendar. More tender than the Paphian dove. C. A. Elton. 
Tender as the gall-less dove. J. G. Cooper. Constant and 
tender as a turtle-dove. Play, Cross Partners. Tender as the 
wood-dove's sigh. Landon. — as a chick. Chaucer, Herrick, fy 



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others. — as the tender grass springing out of the earth by 
clear shining after rain. Sacred Script. — as buds. Jonson's 
Sad Shepherd, Shenstone. — as the lacy film woven at morning 
in the hawthorn blossoms. Play, The Witness. — as dew of 
flower. Chaucer. 

TERRIBLE as death. Marston, South, $ others.— as hell. Milton. 
An oath terrible to me as Styx is to the Gods. Dryden. Ter- 
rible as the last trumpet's sound. Play, Fatal Falsehood. More 
terrible than death's eternal night. E. Settle. Terrible like 
some destroying angel. Southey. More terrible and fierce 
than fancy paints the inexorable angel, when armed with light- 
nings he bestrides the whirlwind, and marks his path with 
slaughter. TV. Hodson. Terrible as a tempest. Specimens of 
Hindoo Literature by N. E. Kinder sley. — as storms. Shakespear. 
— as lightning. J. Montgomery. — as thunder and lightning. 
J. Lacy. Voice, more terrible than thunder. Dr. John Browne. 
Terrible like the thunder of the desert. Ossian. Terrible as 
are the meeting clouds that break in thunder. T. Heijwood. 
— as thunders that strike the towered city to the earth, and 
all consume. Doyne's Tasso. Strike terror like a lightning's 
flash. T. Heijwood. Terrible as is the flash that rushes through 
the storm. Landon. — as a meteor of fire. Ossian. Explosion, 
terrible as a volcano. The Liberal. Terrible as the wind that 
sweeps the tentless desert. Milman. — as Jove. Pomfret. Ma- 
jestically terrible as Mars. /. Mottley. Terrible and strong 
as Mars. Lansdowne. Terrible as war appears. Suckling. — 
as an army with banners. Sacred Script. — as a gorgon. Con- 
greve. — More terrible than a ghost. J. Shirley. Terrible to 
me as the sight of a hobgoblin. Centlivre. No foe is so ter- 
rible as injured love. Oldmixon. 

THAW. As floods which frosts in icy fetters bind, thaw with the 
approaching sun, or southern wind. Poole's Parnassus. 

THICK as stars. Milton, Dyer, § others. — as stars are set in 
heaven. Duchess of Newcastle. — as stars which stud the moon- 
less sky. Southey. — as the galaxy with stars is sown. Dryden. 



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— as the stars of night, or morning dews. Pope. — as the winter 
stars, or summer flowers. W. Thompson. — as the beams of 
day. Settle. Thicker than Egyptian darkness. /. Shirley. 
Darkness, thicker than the shades of night. C. Churchill. 
More thick and black than all earth's vapours. Chapman. — 
than Lerna's foggy mists. Play, Muleasses the Turk. Thick 
as hail. Lidgate, Wyatt, fy others. — as winter's hail. G. Peele. 
With precious stones beset as thick as hail. A. Barclay. Thick 
as hailstones. Dryden, Addison. — as hailstones fall. Play, 
Wily beguiled. — as the falling hail. Somervile. — as hailstones 
pour. Gay. — as hailstones 'fore the spring's approach. Play, 
King John. — as April's hail. Play, If you know not me you 
know nobody. Fly thick as showers of hail. Garth. Thick as 
winter's hail. Play , Alcazar . Scandal, thick as hail-shot flies. 
Somervile. Thicker than the welkin pours his candied drops upon 
the ears of corn. Sylvester. Fly thick as flakes of snow. Spen- 
ser. Thick as the falling snows. Andromache, in Greek Tragic 
Theatre. — as the fleeces of the winter snows when Jove invests 
the naked Alps. Pitt. — as rain. Chaucer, A. Bailey. Drop 
fruits as thick as April showers. Sir W. Davenant. Dangers, 
thick as drops which form the hazy cloud. Play, True Pa- 
triotism. More thick than winter showers. John Jones. Thick 
with gems as the drops of a summer shower. G. Croly. — as 
summer showers, or flights of arrows from the Parthian bows. 
Addison. — as the flowers in meadows. A. Cowley. Thick 
as in spring the flowers adorn the land, or leaves the trees. 
Pope. — as blossoms of the vernal field. James Hogg. Flowers 
and herbs, thick-set as grass in fields. M. R. Mitford. Where 
dew-drops thick as early blossoms hung. R. Bloomfield. Thick 
as the dew-drops of the April dawn, or May-flowers crowding 
o'er the daisy lawn. Mickle's Lusiad. — as dew-drops on the bells 
of flowers. R.Blair. — as dew-drops. SirW. Scott. — as the dews 
which deck the morning flowers, or rain-drops twinkling in the 
sun-bright showers. Darwin 's Botanic Garden. — as leaves. A. 
Cowley. — as autumn leaves. T. Heywood, E. Young. — as au- 
tumnal leaves. Milton, Pope. — as the leaves in autumn strow 

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the woods. Dryden. — as scattered leaves in autumn lie. Par- 
nell. — as ripe fruit or yellow leaves in autumn fall. A. Cowley. 
Thick as the budding leaves or rising flowers, o'erspread the 
land when spring descends in showers. Pope. — as hops. Play, 
Spanish Bawd; J. Taylor ; fy others. — as grapes upon a bunch. 
Fielding. — as flies in spring. Chapman. — as flies about a pot 
of honey. Drayton ; Play, Spanish Bawd. — as the ant-flies in 
a summer's noon. Chatterton. — as flies in the sun. Play, The 
Return from Parnassus. — as gnats in summer evening tide. 
Ibid. — as Egyptian clouds of raining flies. Savage. — as wasps 
in summer. Durfey. — as swarming bees. Hughes. — as swarms 
of bees fly round their hives at evening close, or when a 
tempest drives. Creech, in Dryden s Miscellany. — as bees o'er 
vernal blossoms fly. Pope. — as the bees that with the spring 
renew their flowery toils. Ibid. — as bees about a hive. A. 
Barclay. — as the humming bees that hunt the golden dew in 
summer's heat, on tops of lilies feed. Dryden. — as crows in 
hungry shoals do light on new-sown lands. Sylvester. — as 
sheep in the shepherd's fold. W. Wordsworth. As thick as 
skip in summer in a mead the grasshoppers that all with dew 
are fed. Sylvester. — as grasshoppers in May. E. Ward. — as 
Egypt's locusts. Dryden. A swarm as thick as locusts. Cum- 
berland. Thick as the locusts on the land of Nile. E. Young. 
— as the locusts on Arabia's sands. Jane West. — as herrings. 
P.Pindar. — as stones. Harington. — as atoms. T. Hey wood. 
— as atoms in the sun. W. Taverner. — as bright atoms in the 
solar ray. Scott, in Dodsley's Collection. — as sunny motes. 
Marlowe. As thick and numberless as the gay motes that 
people the sun-beams. Milton. Thick as the motes that 
twinkle in the sun. Dryden. — as motes in a sun-beam. Thom- 
son. — as motes about the sun. T. Kyd. — as a branched oak. 
Chaucer. — as a castle wall. Ibid. Thicker than the sand on 
shore. Play, The True Trojans. Thick as spawn. Savage. — 
as troubled mire. Spenser. His wit is thicker than Tewkesbury 
mustard. Shakespear. Thick as hairs. P.Pindar. Though pe- 
rils abound as thick as thought could make them. Shakespear. 



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THIN as the light. Micky s Lusiad. — as the air. /. Crown, C. 
Johnson. Thin of substance as the air. Shakespear. Thinner 
than burnt air. Donne. Mist, thin as an infant's breath seen 
in the sunshine of an autumn frost. Southey. Thin spun as is 
the subtle gossamer. Play, Lady Alimony. Thin as the filmy- 
threads the spider weaves. Pope. — as a cobweb. Sir W. Scott. 
Thinner than water. Sylvester. Thin and light as birch-tree rind. 
W. Wordsworth. — as a winter leaf. Byron. — as a paper leaf. 
T. Heywood. — as a sheet of paper. Joseph Harris. — as a groat. 
Gay. — as a lath. S. Foote. — as a rake. A. Murphy. 

THIRSTY as a horse-leech. R. Greene. 

THREATEN like stormy clouds when the winds roll them 
along the heath. Ossian. 

THRONGING and busy as Hyblaean swarms. Dryden. 

TIGHT as a drum. Gay. — as parchment on a drum. P. Pindar. 

TIMID as a dove. Sacred Script., Southey. 

TIMOROUS as a sheep. Sir W. Scott. 

TINGE. — As darksome clouds o'er April sky 
Tinge the fair scene with murky dye, 
And wrap each smiling hill and glade 
In varied and uncertain shade ; 
So now the stranger's presence threw 
Around, a shade of darkest hue. 

The Union of the Roses, a Poem. 
TIRESOME as the company of a country squire to a witty fellow 
of the town, when he has got all his money. Wycherley. 

TORMENT. I will be a greater torment to him than a beadle 
to a beggar, a cat to a rat, or a candle to a moth. T. Holcrqft. 

TORPID as a toad in marble. Dr. Johnson. 

TORTUROUS as hell. N. Field. 

TOUGH as steel. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as whalebone. Ban- 
croft. — as whitleather. Play, Bloody Duke. — as Indian rub- 
ber. C. H. Wilson's Play of Poverty $ Wealth. 

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TOWER aloft, like eagles on the wing. Dryderis Miscellany. 
Tower like a rising flame. G. Croly. 

TRACELESS as the wind. Sir W. Davenant. 

TRACKLESS as the winged couriers of the air. N. Cotton. 
Trackless and shifting as the wind. Moore s Fables. 

TRACTABLE as a lamb. Lidgate. 

TRANQUIL as the waters in a calm. Andromache, in Greek 
Tragic Theatre. — as a summer sea. W. Wordsworth. A look 
as tranquil as the summer heaven. M. R. Mitford. 
TRANSCEND. 

The solar light 

When from the East his summer's glory pours, 
Not more transcends the waning orb of night, 
Than heav'nly hopes, the hopes of mortal hours. 

Anna Seward. 
TRANSCENDENT as the day. G. Townsend. 

TRANSIENT as the gleam that gilds the surface of a freezing 
stream. Fenton. — like passing gleams of sunshine in a stormy 
day. Joanna Baillie. More transient than the ray that leads 
pale twilight to her dusky bed. Mary Robinson. Transient 
as blushes of the dawning day. W. Richardson. — as the rain- 
bow. J. Hervey. — as the radiant bow. James Hogg. — as silver 
drops of morning dew. Henry King. — as the dew of morn. 
Poetical Calendar. — as summer morn's exhaling dew. Anna 
Seward. — as the flower of April morn. TV. J. Mickle. — as the 
shade of a wandering cloud. Ossian. — as breath upon a mir- 
ror. T. Moore. — as the fleeting hour. W. Cowper. — as fleeting 
dreams. /. Sterling. Her joy was transient as the tones of 
gentle zephyr sighing o'er the strings of an Eolian harp. G. 
R. Dixon. 

TRANSPARENT as the day. Play, Merry Milkmaids.— like 
the sun. J. Shirley. — as the air. Jonson, Bedloe, fy others. — 
as thin air, or crystal. Chapman. More transparent than the 
morning dew, or crystal. J. Shirley. — as crystal. Beaumont fy 



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Fletcher, W. Cartwright, § others. — as rock crystal. Foote fy 
Bicker staff. — as a rock of solid crystal. Dry den. — as glass. 
/. Banks, C. Johnson, fy others. Veil, transparent as the gos- 
samer. Italy, a Poem, 

TREMBLE like a lamb fled from the prey. Spenser. — like a 
lamb snatched from the fangs of some fell wolf. G. Sandys. — 
like the unlicked lamb newly yeaned upon a sheet of snow. 
Sir W. Davenant. — like a tender lamb in a cold winter night. 
Ibid. — like the young and timid deer. Preston's App. Rhodius. 
— as doth the listening hart when he hears the feathered ar- 
row sing his funeral dirge. /. Kirk. — like a leaf. Murphy. 
— like a leaf at the blast of the western wind. Palace of Plea- 
sure, by William Painter. — like aspen leaves. Shakespear, 
Scott, fy others. — like a green aspen leaf. Spenser. — like an 
aspen. P. Pindar, Sir W. Scott. All tremble when you frown, 
like leaves upon an aspen's tender twig shook by the ruffling 
winds. J. Banks. Trembling as the pendent leaf that in a 
tempest quivers with the blast. E. Stanley. Tremble like a 
reed. Alexander Earl of Sterline. — like a magnetic needle. 
Byron. O my divided soul, how do I tremble ! like to the 
doubtful needle 'twixt two loadstones. Poole's Parnassus. 
Tremble like a frosty Russian on a hill. Sir W. Davenant. 
I love and tremble as at angels' view. Play, Duke of Guise. 
Tremble as if they gathering flowers a snake discerned. Sir 
W. Davenant. She trembles as the ebbing seas, swept gently 
over by a rising breeze. W. S. Landor. 

TREMENDOUS as a god. Pope. 

TRICKLE like a snow-ball in the sun. Play, Bloody Duke. 

TRIM as a trencher. Play, Jacob fy Esau. 

TRIVIAL as a parrot's prate. W. Cowper. 

TROUBLED as the sea. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. More troubled 
than Sicilian seas in storms. /. Fountain. 

TROUBLESOME as a windy day. J. Howard. — as a law-suit. 
C. Cibber. 






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TRUE as fate. Dekker. — as the Gospel. Gay. — as is the Creed. 
Lidgate. — as God is in heaven. Play, Shoemakers Holiday. — 
as the gods. Dryden. — as the voice of Jove. Poole's Parnassus. 
— as Heaven. Moses Brown. — as angels. The Robbers, Play 
from Schiller. — as guardian angels. TV. Thompson. — as truth's 
simplicity. Shakespear. — as honour. Mallet, Falconer. — as 
Chastity itself. TV. Browne. — as Nature is true. Burke. — as the 
circling spheres to Nature's plan. Campbell. — as light. T. Scot. 
— as the day. N. Lee. — as sun to-day. Shakespear. — as the 
sun to his diurnal race. Sir TV, Davenant. — as the dial to the 
sun. B. Booth, Murphy, fy others. — as the dial to the monarch 
of the day. Durfey. — as planets to their moons. Shakespear. 
— as flowing tides are to the moon. Dryden 's Troilus. — as iron 
to adamant. Shakespear. — as steel to adamant. /. Cook. — as 
the needle to the pole. B. Booth, Somervile, ty others. — as the 
needle to the north. Sir TV. Davenant. — as the magnetic needle 
to the north, Durfey. — as the needle tracks the load-star. 
T. Moore. — as earth to the centre. Shakespear. — as rivers to 
the main. Sir W. Davenant. — as the shadow to the substance. 
Chatterton. — as hermits' confession at their deaths. Sir TV. 
Davenant. — as the hermit to the plighted vow. Poetical Ca- 
lendar. — as dying martyrs to their faith. C. Johnson. — as steel. 
Chaucer, Gower, 8$ others. — as turtles. R, Greene, A. Philips, 
8$ others. — as turtle-dove. Chaucer. True in love as turtle to 
her mate. Spenser, Shakespear. True unto thy bed, and chaste 
unto thy love, as e'er was turtle to her mate. Play, Cupid's 
Whirligig. — as blushes of a maiden's cheek. TV. Browne, — 
as flowers to the sun. Thurlow. — as the skin between thy 
brows. Play, Gammer Gurton's Needle. — as a die. Gay. — as 
a stone. Chaucer. — as touch. Spenser. — as death. Marlowe. 
— as blade to hilt. T. Dibdin. 

TUNEABLE. Tongue more tuneable than lark to shepherd's 
ear. Shakespear. 

TUNEFUL as the plaintive bird of night sweet warbling in the 
grove. R. Rolt. 



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TURBULENT. The sea in all its fury is less turbulent and 
restless than her spirit. /. Worsdale. 

TURN as the wind. Wyatt, A. Barclay. — as a ball. Lidgate, 
Wyatt, fy others. 

TWINE like pale ivy round the polished bark of the smooth 
beech. Cumberland. Twine about him as the ivy doth the 
oak. Duchess of Newcastle. — like ivy round an oak. F. Lynch. 
The rock enfolds her even as the ivy twines her tendrils round 
the lofty oak. Antigone, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Twine as 
ivy locks the elm in her embraces. /. Corye. Twine about 
him like Laocoon's snake. Cumberland. 

TWINKLE like a star. Marlowe, Ravenscroft. — like the fixed 
stars. Duchess of Newcastle. — like stars in a frosty night. 
Chaucer. 



U. 

UGLY as sin. P. Pindar, T. E. Hook, fy others. — as death. 
Davenport, E. Moore. — as a death's-head. C. Johnson. — as 
hell. Marlowe, T. Heywood, 8$ others. — as the devil. Ravens- 
croft, Fielding, fy others. — as a fiend. Mrs. C. Clive. Uglier 
than the frightful fiend by pencils of cloistered virgins drawn. 
Sir W. Davenant. — as a satyr. Play, The Legacy. — as an ape. 
E. Ward. — as a baboon. Centlivre. — as a bear. Shakespear. 
— as a toad. R. Davenport. 

UNBLAMED as faith. Mallet. 

UNBLEMISHED as Innocence itself. C. Macklin. — as un- 
shaded light. Sir W. Davenant. — as snow. Poetical Calendar. 

UNBOUNDED as God's power. Pomfret. — as the sea. Thom- 
son. Unbounded as the elements they reign. Goring. 

UNBROKEN as the sacred chain of nature that links the jarring 
elements in peace. Dr. Johnson. 

UNCERTAIN as the sea. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Buckingham. — 



UNC 

— as the light when evening day with gathering darkness 
strives. Doyne's Tasso. — as the wind. J. Ford, John Mottley. 
— as the breeze that fans the air. A. Bushe. — as the seasons. 
Fix. 

UNCHANGEABLE as fate. E. Settle. 

UNCHANGED and clear as the meridian sun. Jenyns. — un- 
changed as God. Pollok. 

UNCLOUDED as the virgin morn when silver dews her golden 
rays adorn. Play, Amintas. 

UNCONCERNED as infant's sleep. E. Howard. 

UNCONFINED as thought. M. Bladen.— as light. E. Settle, 
Duke. — as day. Akenside. — as air. Fawkes, Churchill. Un- 
confined and free as whispering air. Behn. — as the celestial 
circles. Dryden's Miscellany. — as blest eternity. Poole's Par- 
nassus. — as winds. Glover. — as dew falls from the hand of 
evening on the fields. Scott of A mw ell. 

UNCONSCIOUS as the mountain of its ore, or rock of its in- 
estimable gem. E. Young. 

UNCONSTRAINED as air. Somervile, — as freedom in the 
winds. Play, Abdication of Ferdinand. 

UNCONTROLLABLE as fate. Somervile, Southey — as winds 
and waves when roars the wintry tempest. Pye. 

UNCONTROLLED as fate. C. Cotton.— as air. /. Banks. 

UNCORRUPT as light. Pomfret. No vestal at the altar bears 
a soul so uncorrupt. W. Hemmings. — as the honour of a virgin 
that must be strict in thought, or else that title, like one of 
frailty's ruins, shrinks to dust. T. Middleton. 

UNDAUNTED like Mars. Gildon. 

UNDEFILED as heaven. Marmion. — as purity and innocence. 
South. 

UNDISTINGUISHABLE as the effect of a particular drop when 
the meadows are floated by a summer shower. Dr. Johnson. 



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UNDISTURBED, placid, and serene, like a fine calm summer's 
evening. Young. 

UNERRING as death's scythe. Sir W. Scott. 

UNFADING as the immortal powers above. Dryden. 

UNFEELING as rocks. T. Smollett. 

UNFETTERED as the winds. Sir W. Davenant, Hodson, $ 
others. — as bees that in gardens abide. W. Wordsworth. 

UNFORTUNATE as if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear 
met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the 
wall, and a serpent bit him. Sacred Script. 

UNGENEROUS as neglect. Savage. 

UNITED with heaven as the beams with the sun. R. Carpenter. 

UNIVERSAL as the sun. Shakespear, Beaumont ty Fletcher, fy 
others. — as the sun's light. Sir W. Davenant. — as the light or 
common air we breathe. Carew. — as the air. Italy, a Poem. — as 
the day. Cumberland. 

UNKIND as scorn. Savage. — as winter's dreary frost. Smollett. 

UNLIKE as intellect and body. Dr. Johnson. 

UNLIKELY as that darkness should produce light. Tillotson. 

UNMERCIFUL as the billows. Gay. 

UNMOVEABLE as fate. Play, Game of Chess. — as rocks. 
W. Shirley. 

UNMOVED as death. Pope. — as fate. Goring. — as the poles. 
Poole's Parnassus. — as a rock. Spenser, Massinger. — as rocks 
to the importunities of winds and waves. Sir F. Fane. As 
rock of adamant unmoved. Cumberland. Unmoved as rocks 
within the deep, when mountain billows break and torrents 
sweep. Preston's App. Rhodius. Like a promontory rock she 
stands, at all the curled ocean's wrath unmoved. T. Heywood. 
Unmoved as stone. Parnell. As the sacred laurel bears the 
lightning's shock unmoved. Jane West. 



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UNNATURAL as mirth at a funeral. E. Young.— like frosty 
nights in summer time. J. Smith. 

UNNUMBERED as the sands of Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil. 

Milton.— as the pearls of sparkling frost. Rome, a Poem. 
UNPERCEIVED as air. C. Cibber. 
UNPITYING as the grave. Abelard to Eloisa, a Poem. 

UNPLEASANT as penance. Centl'wre. — as a rainy day. Play, 
Portsmouth Heiress. 

UNPOLLUTED as crystal streams. L. Maidwell. 

UNQUESTIONED as an oracle. Poole's Parnassus. 

UNRELENTING as the grave. Akenside. 

UNRIVALLED as the light that rules the day. Lansdowne. 

UNRULY as the sea. Sylvester. — as the jade that scorns the 
bit. E. Ward. 

UNSEASONABLE as blossoms in autumn. P. Fletcher. 

UNSETTLED as the sliding sand. Sylvester. 

UNSHAKEN as earth's firm base. Dr. Johnson. — as a rock. 
Glapthorne, Blackmore, fy others. My duty shall stand as un- 
shaken as doth a rock against the chiding flood. ShaJcespear. 

UNSKILFUL as unpractised infancy. Shakespear. 

UNSOILED as the dew-drop. R. Bloomfield. 

UNSPOTTED as the light. Poems on State Affairs.— as a lily. 
M. K. Masters. 

UNSTABLE as water. Sacred Script. More unstable than the 
superficies of the water. Wit's Commonwealth. — than the sea. 
T.Heywood. Unstable as the wind. Hook's Metastasio. — as 
the wind and seas. Gildon. — as the trace of an arrow through 
the penetrated air, or the path of a keel in the furrowed wave. 
/. Hervey. Unstable, empty, as the cloud that sweeps along 
the vale, are all our hopes. G. E. Howard. — as a shadow. 
Doyne's Tasso. — as sand. Landon. 

UNSTAINED and pure as is the lily, or the mountain snow. 



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Thomson. Unstained as driven snow. Universal Magazine. 
— as a clear morning dew-drop. Play, Vespers of Palermo. 

UNSTEADY as the wind. Mary R. Stockdale. 

UNSUBSTANTIAL as moonlight. Sir W. Scott.— as the fleet- 
ing shade. Poet's Day, a Poem. — as the ambient air. Phoenician 
Damsels, in Greek Tragic Theatre. Unsubstantial and fleet- 
ing as the gay Iris of a thousand dyes. Play, Montalto. — as 
the forms that float upon the watry mirror. C. Fox. 

UNSULLIED as the whitest virtue. C. Johnson. — as the light. 
E. Settle, A. Philips. — as descending snow. Merry, A. Brown. 
— as new fallen snow. /. G. Cooper. — as the glittering snow. 
Merrick. — as the morning dew. The Fall, a Poem, by Thurston. 
— as the rose within the bud before the morning sun has kissed 
it open. Gildon. Soul, unsullied as the opening bud. Play, 
Selim fy Zuleika. — as a sheet of white paper. Colman. 

UNTAINTED as the morning. South. The pure and virgin 
light is less untainted. Banks. Untainted as a crystal rock. 
Glapthorne. 

UNTAMEABLE as flies. Dekker. 

UNWEARIED as the sun. Poetical Calendar. 

UNWELCOME as death to a house of riches. Play, Second 
Maiden's Tragedy. — as frost to early flowers. Ravenscroft. 

UPRIGHT as a wall. Lidgate. — as the palm-tree. Sacred Script. 
—as a candle standeth in a socket. /. Heywood. 

USELESS as a sun-dial in a dark room. Tillotson. — as dials in 
the gloom of night. A. Selden. Useless, unseen, as lamps in 
sepulchres. Pope. 

V. 

VAGRANT as the wind. /. Ford. 

VAGUE as lightnings run. T. Moore. 

VAIN as an endeavour to mingle oil and water. Dr. Johnson. 



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— as to amalgamate bodies of heterogeneous principles. Ibid. 
as fleeting air. Mickles Lusiad. — as are infants' bubbles 
swelled with wind, which quickly lose their splendid gaiety 
and vanish into nought. C. Beckingham. — as to hold tem- 
pests within a toil. Smollett. — as bottling up of wind. Swift. 
— as for a brook to cope with ocean's flood. Byron. — as to 
count the April drops of rain. Smollett. — as to sow in Afric's 
barren soil. Ibid. Vain and illusive as a sick man's dream. 
J. Hoole. Vain and unsubstantial as the dreams which vanish 
soon as morning beams. James Campbell. 

VALIANT as war. Beaumont fy Fletcher. — as fire. Jonson. — as 
a lion. Shakespear. — as Mars. Pope. — as Hercules. Shake- 
spear, J. Shirley, 8$ others. — as Hector. Ibid. — as Achilles. 
T. Lodge. 

VANISH like a sunbeam. Sir W. Scott. Vanish fleet as the 
sun-flash o'er a summer wave. R. Montgomery. — like a shoot- 
ing star. Tobin. — as a falling star. /. Ralph. Vanish from his 
sight like stars extinguished by approaching light. Voltaire's 
Henriade translated. Vanish as suddenly as lightning. T. 
Shadwell. — as the soft air. Wisdom of Solomon. — like summer 
clouds. Play, Lord of the Manor. — like clouds driven before 
the eastern light. Play, Histriomastix. — like a cloud before the 
sun. C. Lloyd's Alfer'is Plays. — like a cloud chased with the 
wind. Marmion. Like a cloud he vanishes to air. James 
Ralph. Vanishing as clouds. Dry den. — like vapours. Syl- 
vester, J. Taylor. — like the morning dew. T. Holcroft. — like 
morning mist. Ossian, Quarles. — like a thin pillar of mist be- 
fore the wind. Ossian. — like the mist of the lake. Ibid. — like 
a mist that melts on the sunny hill. Ibid. Like brooding 
mists pierced by the radiant sun, fly swift at once and vanish in 
a moment. R. Hurst. As mists before the morning sun soon 
vanish into air. R. Phillips. Vanish like mists before the 
rays of light. Poems of Anna Maria. — like noisome fogs before 
the beams of morn. Thomson. — like rain upon the deep. 
R. Montgomery. — like a summer shower. T. Holcroft ; Play, 



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Drenched fy Dried. Vanish away like smoke. Sacred Script. 
— as smoke or shadows. Duchess of Newcastle. — like a sha- 
dow. H.Blair. — as a shade. Forest of Fancy. — like the 
night. Dryden. — like the. winds. G. Chapman, J. G. Cooper. 
— as a storm of wind. Quarles. — as a dream. E. Young, R, 
Warner, fy others. — like an airy dream. Preston's App. Rho- 
dius. — as a fleeting dream. Falconer, L. Macnally. — like a 
morning dream. Philip Frowde, Merrick, fy others. — like a 
dream of the night. Fragments of Ancient Poetry. Vanish 
and disappear like dreams and mere illusions of the imagina- 
tion when a man awakes out of sleep. Tillotson. — like a vision 
of the night. H t Blair. — like the fleeting forms drawn in an 
evening cloud. Jago. Vanish away like a ghost. E. Ward. — 
— like a flitting ghost. Sir W. Scott. — like ghosts at the sight 
of day light. Select Poems, from Ireland. — as spectres at ap- 
proach of day. Abelard to Eloisa, a Poem. Like a meteor va- 
nished from his sight. Southey. Vanish from them like en- 
chanted ground. Dryden. — like a rainbow. M. R. Mitford. 
Swift as a bird 'scap'd from the fowler's hand, hence hast thou 
vanish'd with impetuous flight. Hippolitus, in Greek Tragic 
Theatre. 

VARIABLE as the wind. Barclay ; Old Poem, Guiscard 8$ Sis- 
mond. Variable and uncertain like to wintry weather. Ed- 
ward Burt. — as the shade by the light quivering aspen made. 
Sir W. Scott. More variable than the cameleon. T. Heywood. 
Variable and inconstant as Fortune's globe. Greene's Arcadia. 
Variable as are the caprices of the human imagination. Thomas 
Chalmers. 

VARIOUS as the sudden acts of human wit. Akenside. — as na- 
ture. Savage. — as light. Ibid. — as the moon. Watts. Va- 
rious and inconstant as the moon. Southern. — as an April day. 
Scott of Amwell. A humour various as the winds. Durfey. 
Thou art more various than the shifting gale. Merry. Various 
as the dyes on the dove's neck. E. Young. Various and 
bright as the rainbow's dyes. M. A. Browne. More various 
than the several forms of dreams that wait on Morpheus 



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in his sleepy den. Marmion. Various as flowers on unfre- 
quented plains. Congreve. More various than rising flowers 
that deck untrodden plains. M. Pilkington. 
VARY like the wind. Quarles. With every blast they vary like 
a vane. Lidgate. 

VAST as the demands of human will. Ahenside. — as the ex- 
tended sky. Chatterton. — as the orb that circles in its breast 
the world of stars. G. Townsend. 

VEER about like a weather-cock. W. Hayley, $ others. Veer- 
ing as the wind. Gildon. Veer like the fickle wind. John 
Hanway. Veering as the wind that knows no settled point. 
A. Bushe. 

VENEMOUS as scorpions. Gaffe. — as asps. A. Hill. — as the 
poison of a serpent. Common Prayer Book. Venemous and 
deaf as the adder. Congreve. — as a mad dog. T. Killigrew. — 
as a mad dog's tooth. Shakespear. More venemous than 
mortal plagues. C. Marsh. 

VERMILIONED like a ruby. Durfey. Her lips vermilioned 

as the rosebud's hue. Walwyn. 
VEXED like the troubled sea. E. Irving. 

VIEWLESS as death's sable wing. Sir W. Scott.— as the air. 

Pope. — as the winds. M. G. Lewis. 
VIGILANT as Jealousy itself. Etherege. — as a lynx. Dilke. — 

as a cat to steal cream. Shahespear. 

VIGOROUS as the sun. Thomson. — as fire. Pomfret. — like a 
new-fledged eagle. T. Maurice. — as a lark at break of day. 
W. Wordsworth. , . 

VILE as the dross. Watts. — as the dross upon the molten gold. 
Ahenside. — - as sea weeds are. Adams, in Dryden's Miscel- 
lany. — as clay. Play, School Boy's Mask. 

VINDICTIVE as the fiends. H. Boyd. 

VIOLENT as the rising flood. Dryden. 

VIRTUOUS as saints. Gibber, Ramsay. — as Penelope. Boyle 



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Earl of Orrery, Addison. — as Fabricius, of whom it was said 
that a man might as well attempt to turn the sun out of his 
course, as to induce him to do a base or a dishonest action. 
South. — as was our mother Eve ere Satan came and with de- 
luding eloquence betrayed her. Play, The Spaniards. 

VISIBLE as a nose on a man's face. Shakespear. The sun is 
not more visible when not one cloud wrinkles the brow of 
heaven. Habington. 

VIVIFYING as the sun. Gay. More vivifying than the sun's 
rays. The Liberal. 

VOLATILE as air. E. Young. — as water. Sir W.Scott. — as 
fragrance from the flower. Montgomery. — as a butterfly. 
VatheJc. 

VOLUPTUOUS as the first approach of sleep. Byron. 

VORACIOUS as a kite. P. Pindar. 



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VV AIT on. — I do perceive shame and remorse are handmaids 
that wait on guilt, as darkness on the night. Cumberland. 

WAKEFUL as the day. Watts. 

WANDER like a drunken man. Sacred Script. — like a vaga- 
bond. W. Painter's Palace of Pleasure. — like autumn leaves. 
Sir W. Davenant. — like some discontented ghost. Dryden. — 
like a restless ghost. M. R. Mitford. Wandering like ghosts 
affrighted from their graves. Chapman. 

WANTON as summer breezes. Behn. — as the wings of western 
winds. J. Dennis. — as the roe. Durfey. — as a kid. Dryden. 
— as youthful goats. Shakespear. — as a kid whose horn new 
buds. Spenser. — as the calf. Polwheles Theocritus. — as an 
ape. Harington. — as a monkey. N. Breton's Will of Wit. 

WARM as ecstasy. W. Cowper. — as Phoebus at noon. /. G. 



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Cooper. — as midsummer. Mrs, Cooper. — as May. Lovibond, 
— as June. Ramsay, Coffey. Warm and buxom as a sum- 
mer's day. Shepherd's Lottery. Warm as summer suns. A, 
Seward. — as a spring day sun, T. Moore. — as a love-sick 
poet's muse. W. Thompson. — as wool. Peele, P, Pindar. — as 
a toast. Gay. Somervile, ty others. 

WARY as a fox. B. Cornwall. 

WASH. I will wash my hands like Pilate from thy folly. Play, 
How to choose a good Wife. 

WASTE like the smoke dissolving in the air. Watts. — like a 
watch candle. Duchess of Newcastle. Wasting like a taper. 
J. Taylor. Wasteful like lightning. Dryden. 

WATCH as careful as the tender pelican stands by her tender 
young. A. Brewer. Watch as the young mother watches her 
first child. Landon. — like a lynx. A. Cherry ; Play, New Spain. 
— like tigers for their prey. Garrick. Watch me like a cat. 
P. Pindar. Watch me as close as did the dragon the Hes- 
perian fruit. Play, Fickle Shepherdess. 

WATCHFUL as a lynx. L. Macnally, Byron, ty others. — like 
a cat. PasquiVs Nightcap, CPKeeffe. More watchful than 
the day-proclaiming cock. Play, Merry Devil of Edmonton. 
Watchful as Argus with al] his eyes. R. Greene. As the eye 
of age still waked with jealousy. Sir W. Davenant. — as fow- 
lers when their game will spring. Otway. 

WAVE like seas. Harington. Waved as the billows of a rolling 
sea. Dyer. Wave incessant as the restless tide. Aurelia, 
a Poem. — like the ostrich plume. G. Keate. 

WAVERING as the wind. F. Beaumont, Davenant, 8$ others. — 
as the weather. Harington. — as a weathercock. R. Bernard. 
WAX and wane like the moon. Barclay. 

WEAK as infancy. Dr. Thomas Franklin. — as water. Sacred 
Script., E. Ward. — as wind. Gascoigne. — as the scorched 
thread. /. Hervey. Weak and fragile like Arachne's line. 
Denham. — as a shaking reed. Doyne's Tasso. Weak as the 



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twilight, gleams the solar ray. Mickle's Lusiad. Weak as a 
lamb the hour it is yeaned. TV. Wordsworth. 

WEALTHY as a prince. Swift. More wealthy than the eastern 
ocean. J. Beaumont. 

WEEP like April showers. E. Howard, in Drydens Miscellany. 
— like a child. Southey. — like a chidden child. Chaucer. Like 
another Niobe I'll weep till I am water. Play, Maid's Tra- 
gedy. Weep like Rachel. Joanna Bailey. Like Rachel weep- 
ing for her children. Sacred Script. 

WELCOME as the feet of him that bringeth good tidings. Sa- 
cred Script. — as happy tidings after fears. Otway. — as health. 
N. Lee. — as health to labourers. Play, Second Maidens Tra- 
gedy. — as health to the sick. Marmion. Health to the sick, 
drink to the thirsty soul, is not more welcome. Poole's Par~ 
nassus. — as quiet rest to one by pain and want of sleep op- 
pressed. Ibid. — as rest to pains and care. C. Cibber. — as 
peace to those who long have found the conquering sword of 
war all quietness debar. Play, Traitor to Himself. — as hope 
to lovers, or the tortured wretch cessation of his pain. Bevil 
Higgons. — as hope to lovers in despair. C. Cibber. — as liberty 
to captives. Play, Second Maidens Tragedy. — as freedom to 
the shackled slave. Play, Traitor to Himself. — as freedom to the 
groaning slave, or to a harassed country smiling peace. C. 
Bechingham. — as the voice which whispers liberty to dungeon 
slaves. Sir H. Jacob. — as the tidings of liberty to the dungeon 
captive. /. Hervey. — as the year of jubilee to the harassed 
slave. Ibid. — as mercy to a man condemned. Dry den. Wel- 
come to me as to a sinking mariner the lucky plank that bears 
him to the shore. Dryden. — as after darkness cheerful light. 
Lansdowne. — as the cheerful light. Jephtha, a Sacred Drama. 
Welcome to my eyes as rising sun to new recovered sight. 
C. Machlin. Welcome to mine eyes as is the day-spring from 
the morning's womb unto the wretch whose nights are tedious. 
Play, Second Maiden's Tragedy. — as Aurora the messenger of 
light to those who have suffered a long tedious night. Play, 

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Emilia. — as the approach of opening morn after sable night in 
silence hushed. J ago. — as the lark's delightful tune at the 
bright dawn of day. C. Beckingham. — as the light to cheerful 
birds. Dryden. — as earliest light to the infant world. R. Baron. 
More welcome to these eyes than was the first light to the 
disordered chaos. J. Corye. — as the sun. Centlivre. — as suns 
in winter are. Dryden 's Miscellany. — as a winter's sun. Dry- 
den. — as winter's sun, or summer's shade. T. Killigrew. — as 
fresh water to sea-beaten men. Play, Leir. More welcome 
than the wandering seaman's star, when in the night the winds 
make ceaseless war, until his bark so long is tost, that its sails 
to rags are blown. Sir W. Davenant. — as day after a night of 
storms with fairer beams returning. Potter s Eschylus. As 
the early light and still and quiet morn to seamen after storm 
and tedious minutes of tempestuous night. Play, Traitor 
to Himself. — as land which the tossed mariner beyond his 
hope descries. Potter's Eschylus. To wind-bound mariners 
most welcome blow the breezy zephyr through the whistling 
shrouds. Greene fy Pyes Pindar. Welcome as sleep. C. 
Manuch. — as sleep to wearied nature. Play, Valiant Welsh- 
man. — as sleep to the traveller. Play, Leir. — as sound health- 
ful sleep to men oppressed with sickness. Chapman. — as sud- 
den ease to one in pain. J. Crown. As sunshine heat to teem- 
ing meadows that are wet with prolific April's tears. /. Smith. 
— as the spring. Play, Romulus fy Hersilia; W. Browne, 8f 
others. — as spring is to the year. Marmion. More welcome 
than the approach of spring. Poetical Miscellany. As wel- 
come to my soul as a kind spring that treads upon a rigorous 
winter's heels. Theobald. — as the flowers in May. The Cloud 
King, Archibald Maclaren, fy others. — as moistening showers 
unto the parched ground. Play, Leir. — as kindly showers to 
long parched earth. Dryden. Most welcome to the thirsty 
mountains flow soft showers the pearly daughters of the 
clouds. Greene fy Pyes Pindar. Welcome to me as cool fresh 
air in heat's extremity. T. Heywood. — as Favonian gales. A. 
Seward. — as the dews of heaven. R. Bloomfield. — as morning 



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dew to roses. T. Middleton:- — as dewy cherries to the taste in 
June. Scott ofAmwell. I expected such a welcome as happy 
souls in Paradise bestow upon a new inhabitant who comes to 
taste their blessedness. Play, Fatal Falsehood. It shall be to 
Heaven more welcome than the rich incense of a hundred al- 
tars steaming with sacrifice. Cumberland. Welcome as shady 
lanes to travellers at noon. Scott of Amw ell. — as a draught of 
water to a thirsty man. J. Shirley. — as the liquid lapse of 
fountain to the thirsty traveller. Potter's Eschylus. — as gold 
to the covetous eye. Play, heir. Welcome to me as charm- 
ing harmony. Glapthorne. — as open air to prisoners. Suckling. 
— as victory. Dryden. — as life, as victory, and fame. Bevil 
Higgons. — as a king. N. Lee. Welcome as when on virtuous 
toils the gods bestow success. Greene fy Pye's Pindar. Most 
welcome sound mellifluous odes whose numbers ratify the 
voice of fame, and to illustrious worth insure a lasting name. 
Ibid. — as knowledge to the wise man's breast. Play, Socrates 
Triumphant. — as the gentry to the town after a long and hard 
vacation. Marmion. — as is the journey's end to weary travel- 
lers. Poole's Parnassus. 

WHIRL the dust as simooms whirl the sand. Byron. Whirled 
like a leaf in an autumn day. M. A. Browne. 

WHISPERING like winds ere hurricanes arise. Dryden. 

WHITE as innocence. Beaumont 8? Fletcher, Jonson, fy others. 
This repentance makes thee as white as innocence. /. Ford. — 
as unoffending innocence. N. Ro?ve. — as sainted innocence. 
C. Manuch. Whiter than the ivory throne of sainted innocence. 
Earl of Carlisle. White as spotless innocence. Poetical Ca- 
lendar. — as maiden purity. Landon. — as truth. Beaumont fy 
Fletcher, Whitehead. — as virtue. W. Havard. A soul as white 
as heaven. Beaumont 8$ Fletcher. — as heaven. Play, Untrussing 
of the Humourous Poet. — as day. Carew. — as the light. Sacred 
Script. Whiter than the new-born light struck out of chaos 
by the Maker's hand in earnest of creation. Cumberland. 
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White as the sunshine streams though vernal clouds. Akenside. 
White as the moon from the clouds of night when its edge 
emerges from the darkness which covers its orb. Ossian. 
White as moonshine in a winter's night. E. Ward. — as the 
milky way. /. Fountain, Durfey. — as the way that leads to Jove's 
high court. Beaumont ty Fletcher. — as snow. Sacred Script., 
Chaucer, ty others. — as winter snow. Drayton, Carew, fy others. 
— as flakes of winter snow. Dryden's Miscellany. — as flaky snow. 
Play, Hippolitus. — as a flake of snow. Play, Spanish Bawd. — 
as Christmas snow. W. J. Mickle. — as January's snow. Dray- 
ton. Whiter than winter when it is clad in snow. A. Cowley. 
— than snow on winter's breast. Sir W. Jones. White as Hy- 
perborean snow. Thomson. — as driven snow. Spenser, Shake- 
spear, 8$ others. — as winter's driven snow. Lilly. — as falling 
snow. Jonson, G. Sandys, fy others. — as the fresh falling 
snow. Chetwood, in Drydens Miscellany. Whiter than the 
fleecy snows. The Vestriad, a Poem. Whiter and softer than 
the snowy down that falls from heaven. William Roberts. 
White as new fallen snow. Chaucer, T. Middleton, fy others. 
Whiter than snow new fallen from heaven. Suckling. White 
as new fallen snow on untrodden mountains. Quarles. — as new 
fallen snow that spreads its plumes on Atlas' bleaky head. 
Poetical Calendar. As the new fallen snow when never yet the 
sullying sun hath seen its purity, nor the warm zephyr touched 
and tainted it. Southey. — as the snow ere its pureness is 
stained by its fall below. Landon. — as the pure snow. B. 
Barnes. — as purest snow that falls on the top of aged Appe- 
nine. Doyne's Tasso. — as spotless snow. Sir W. Scott. — as 
unsullied snow. Jenyns. Whiter than the snow that lies un- 
sullied by the breath of southern skies. Addison. — as the 
mountain snow. Shakespear, Beaumont, fy others. — as the 
bleached snow. Play, Youth's Comedy. Whiter than virgin 
snow. C. Cotton, J. Hervey, fy others. — as infant snow. Glap- 
thorne. — as morning snow. C. Cotton. — as unsunned snow. 
Southey. — as the fanned snow that is bolted by the northern 
blast twice over. Shakespear. — as Alpine snow. Tomhis, Lee, 



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8f others. — as the snow upon the Alpine cliff. Doyne's Tasso. 
White as the snowy fleece that clothes the Alpine ridge. W. 
Hamilton. Whiter than frozen Appenine. Spenser. — than are 
the snowy Appenines. Plays, Taming of a Shrew, Solomon ty 
Perseda. White as snow hills glistening in the moon's pale 
light. Mickle's Lusiad. — as drifted snow. Preston's A pp. 
Rhodius ; Albert, a Poem ; fy others. — as drifts of Thracian 
snow. Dry den. — as untrod snow. L. Machin, G. Sandys. — as 
the snow upon the mountain's tops. Pix. Whiter than untrod 
snow on mountains. Poetical Recreations. White as Lapland 
snow. Aurelia, a Poem ; James Montgomery. Whiter than 
winter when it is clad in snow. A. Cowley. White as snowy 
woods. W. Browne. White as on starry nights the feathered 
snow. C. Beckingham. Whiter than Venus' foot, young Hebe's 
neck, or Juno's arms. Jonson. White as the foam of streams. 
Ossian. — as the foam of the waves. Ibid. — as foamy waves that 
rise by turns amidst rocks. Ibid. More white than Neptune's 
foamy face. Sir P. Sidney. — than the foam of the main when 
the waves roll beneath the wrath of the winds. Ossian. — than 
the foam of the rolling ocean. Ibid. White as the foam of the 
troubled sea. Ibid. — as wintry foam. The Vestriad, a Poem. 
as the ocean spray. M. R. Mitford. — as the sea spray. Landon. 
— as a swan. Weber's Old Metrical Romances, Gower, % 
others. Whiter than the silver swan. Carew, Poetical Calendar. 
White as swans are in their prime. Adams, in Dryden's Miscel- 
lany. — as the bosom of a swan. Ossian. — as the swan's breast. 
Southey. Whiter than the snowy feathers of Leda's swans. A, 
Cowley. White as down. Shakespear, Milton, fy others. White 
and soft as the down of swans. Play, Nero's Tragedy ; E. Ra- 
venscroft. White and soft as the down on the swan's bosom. W. 
Habington. White as the downy swan. M. Robinson. More 
white and soft than swanny down. Poems fy Essays, 1673. 
White as the dowji of Venus' doves. R. Baron. Whiter than Ve- 
nus' doves, and softer than the down beneath their wings. /. 
Banks. White as Venus' dove. R. Greene. — as the whitest dove's 



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unsullied breast. Addison. The spotless silver dove was not 
more white. G. Sandys. White as the Paphian turtles. /. Shir- 
lei/. — as the spotless ermine. Poole's Parnassus. — as pearl. Sir 
W.Scott. — as orient pearls. Sylvester; Charlemagne, a Poem, 
— as the pearls of dew. Landon. Whiter than pearls, or Pe- 
lops' arm of ivory. Herrick. White as the spring's early blos- 
soms. C. Cotton. White as a lily. Chaucer, Sidney, <§• others. 
— as the lily flower. Chaucer, Beaumont fy Fletcher, fy others. 
White as the unsullied lily was her soul. Poole's Parnassus. 
— as the lovely lily of the vale. Southey. White and spot- 
less as the lily's cup ere sun or rain hath freckled it. Dimond. 
— as rising lilies, or as falling snow. Sir W. Davenant. — as 
virgin lilies. Durfey. Whiter than lilies in their virgin growth, 
or snow new fallen. E. Sherburne. White as the garden lily, 
pyren snow, or rocks of crystal hardened by the sun. T. Hey- 
wood. Whiter than whitest lilies, or snow, or whitest swans. 
Herrick. White as a daisy. Chaucer, R. Burns. — as a snow- 
drop. W. J. Mickle. — as a blooming hawthorn. J. Webster, 
Tate. More white than opening leaves of jessamine. Play, 
Alarbas. White as silver. Play, Herod fy Antipater. — as 
burnished silver. Sylvester. — as ivory. R. Greene, Jonson, fy 
others. Whiter than the ivory arm bestowed by Jove on 
Pelops. W. Cowper. White as Pelops' shoulder. W. Browne, 
M. Stevenson. — as the Ethiop's tooth. Shakespear. — as bear's 
teeth. Play, If you know not me you know nobody. Whiter 
than is the Alpine crystal mould. Play, Taming of a Shrew. 
White like marble. W. Wordsworth. — as polished marble. 
Dodsley's Collection. — as Parian marble. Durfey, Friendship's 
Offering. Whiter than Parian stone. Polwheles Theocritus. 
White as alabaster. C. Cotton, ty others. — as polished alabaster. 
Behn. White and smooth like the polished alabaster. Burton's 
Anatomy of Melancholy. White as the purest statuary mar- 
ble. Sir W. Scott. — as Albion rocks. Drayton. — as curds. 
Sir P. Sidney, Gay, fy others. — as curds and cream. Motteux. 
— as cheese new pressed. Jonson. — as milk. Sacred Script., 



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Chaucer, fy others, — as morning's milk. Chaucer, Beaumont, 8f 
others. — as the purest morning's milk. /. Tatham. White as 
a sheet. Fanshaw, T. Holcroft, ty others. Face, as white as 
death. Ward's Gentle Shepherd. White as blanched almonds. 
/. Ford, C. Cotton, — as wool. Sacred Script., W. Cartwright, 
fy others. — as the fleece that decks the vernal sky. Poetical 
Calendar. Whiter than new yeaned lambs. Sir C. Sedley. 
White as chalk. Chaucer. — -as flour. Chaucer, Weber's Old 
Metrical Romances. — as whalebone. Henry Earl of Surrey, 
Turbervile, fy others. Whiter than a swan, silver, snow, lilies. 
Jonson. 

WHOLE as a fish. Beaumont <$• Fletcher, Ravenscroft, 8$ others. 

— as a trout. /. Skelton. 
WHOLESOME as the morning air. Chapman. 

WIDE as creation. E. Young. — as nature's sphere. Akenside. — 
— as the world. Watts, Pollok. Thy fame shall spread wide 
as the heavens. Thomas Stanley. Wide as the arch of heaven. 
E. Young. — as the distant poles. M. Bladen. Wide asunder 
as the poles. Cumberland. — as the starry poles of heaven's ex- 
tent. Goring. Wide as from the north to southern skies. E. 
Ward. — as the sun displays his vital fire. Pope. Stretch as 
wide as day. J. Shirley. Wide as the morn her golden beams 
extend. Pope. — as the air. Marmion. — as air's vital fluid o'er 
the globe. Dyer. — as earth. A. Cowley. — as the sea. Watts. 
— as the Atlantic and Pacific seas. Dyer. — as seas and land. 
Lansdowne. — as hell. Play, The True Trojans ; A. Hill. — as 
lowest hell stands off from heaven. Cumberland. — as a church- 
door. Shakespear, Otway. 

WILD as frenzy. Savage. — as madness. W. Coivper. Wilder 
than despair. N. Lee. — than destruction. Beaumont % Fletcher. 
Wild as winter. Beaumont fy Fletcher, Burns. — as March. C. 
Johnson. — as the lightning. Watts. — as flame, or winter. R. 
Davenport. — as storms. Settle. — as the tempest's rage. Mur- 
phy. — as the wind. Beaumont fy Fletcher, J. Shirley, fy others. 
— as raging winds. Play, Zelmane ; W. Richardson. Wild as 



WIL 

the winds, as raging, and impetuous. Durfey. — as winds that 
sweep the deserts. Dryden. Wild as winter winds his pas- 
sions rage. W. Shirley. Wilder than the winter wind. /. Hogg. 
Wild as ocean's gale. Sir W. Scott. — as the autumnal gust. 
Coleridge. — as the raging main. Pope. — as angry seas. P. 
Francis. Wilder than the raging sea. Poetical Calendar. 
Wild as the roaring deep chafed by the tempest. W. Richard- 
son. Wild and ungovernable as the sea, or wind. Cohnan. — 
as the wave. Burns. — as the waves of wintry sea. Ismael Fitz- 
adam. — as billows. Sir W. Scott; Rome, a Poem. Wilder 
than winds or waves. Congreve. Wild as winds and righting 
seas. Thomson. Wilder than a lion. Lidgate. Wild as a Rus- 
sian bear. T. Middleton. — as a wolf. Davenport. Wilder than 
wolves in plains, or bears in forests. Dryden. — than wolves 
or tigers. Play, Merry Milkmaids. Wild as young bulls. 
Shakespear. — as Thessalian bulls. R. Barf or d. — as a buck. 
Beaumont fy Fletcher, J. Davies, fy others. More wild and 
wanton than either buck or doe. Barclay. Wild and wanton 
as a colt in a common. Odingsells. — as the colts that through 
the commons run. Thomson. Wild and skittish as an un- 
backed colt. Duffett. — as hawks. Burgoyne. — as the scream 
of the curlew. Sir W. Scott. — as haggards of the rock. Shake- 
spear. — as the chanting thrush upon the spray. Gay. — as 
cowslips in the dale. R. Bloomfield. Wild as a woodbine up 
I grew. Ibid. 

WILLING as holy anchorets surrender their white souls to holy 
angels. Play, King Charles the First. 

WILY as an old fox. Sir W. Scott. More wily than the cro- 
codile. W. Hodson. 

WINGED as the wind. Jonson. 

WISE as oracles. T. Killigrerv. — as Apollo. William Hett. — as 
Minerva. J. Mottley, Glover, fy others. — as an angel. Black- 
more. — as Lucifer. E.Young. — as Solomon. Barclay, Duchess 
of Newcastle, 8$ others. — as Socrates. E. Young. — as Cato. 



WRE 

Paradise of Dainty Devices. — as a bishop. Cibber. — as ser- 
pents. Sacred Script., and others. 

WITHER like the stroke of death. The Robbers, Play from 
Schiller. — as plants beneath a hostile sky. Merrick. Withered 
at that piteous sight as early blossoms are with eastern blasts. 
Dryden. Withered like the leaf of autumn. John Home. 
Withered and desolate as leaf in autumn which the wolfish 
winds selecting from its falling sisters, chase far from its native 
grove to lifeless wastes, and leave it there alone to be forgotten. 
Pollok. Wither like a shrivelled flower. Gay. — like a faded 
flower in wintry gales. James Ralph. — like a blasted flower. 
Durfey. — like a sweet flower cropt from its bed of life, wither- 
ed, shrunk up, and pale. Ibid. — as the green herb. Sacred 
Script. — like grass. Ibid. Withered up like a blasted sapling. 
Shakespear. Withered like hay. Wyatt, Spenser. Withering 
as the Dead Sea air. T. Moore. The reputation of a woman 
is like that chaste flower the amaranthus, which is no sooner 
touched but withers. C. Bullock. 

WITTY as youthful poets in their wine. Sir W. Davenant. More 
wit than Mercury, or his son Autolychus, that was able to 
change black into white. Marmion. 

WORSE than death. Plays, Knack to know a Knave, Faithful 
Shepherd, fy others. Hate them worse than hell. Play, Lady 
Alimony ; A. Hill, %■ others. Worse than all hell's pains. 
Havard. — than stings of scorpions. Peaps. Worse to me 
than plague, pestilence, and famine, W. Tavemer, T. Holcroft. 
— than a poisonous mineral. Delap. — than murder. Ibid. — 
— than human torture. Edward Stanley. — than shame. C. 
Johnson. 

WORTH. More worth than all the treasure locked up in the 
heart of earth. Marmion. 

WRATHFUL as a storm. Ossian. 

WRETCHED. More wretched than the slave who toils beneath 
the burning sky of the torrid zone, or the criminal who is 



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doomed to a life of exile amidst the eternal rigour of a Si- 
berian winter. Reine Canziani. 

WRINKLED as a baboon. Mrs. Cowley. A skin wrinkled like 
a tortoise. Randolph. Stiffly wrinkled as frozen ploughed 
lands. R. Brome. 



Y. 

lELL as lion's whelps. Sacred Script. — like furious whelps. 
Broome. 

YELLOW as gold. Weber's Old Metrical Romances ; L. Wager. 
— as amber. Byron. — as wax. Chaucer; Weber's Old Metrical 
Romances, fy others. — as foot of kite. Barclay, Davenant. — as 
a quince. Moliere, Berwick edit. 1771. — as ripened quinces. 

Congreve. 

YIELD as a ridge of dark clouds before a blast of wind. Ossian. 

YOUNG as the infant day. Behn. Young and cheerful as the 
day. R. Bloomfield. — as the morning. Beaumont fy Fletcher, 
Behn, fy others. — as the dawning morn. W. Thompson. — as 
Aurora's dawn. Durfey. Like a day dawn she was young and 
pure. Byron. Young as the spring. Behn, Gildon. Young 
and active as the spring. Play, Stepmother. Young and 
blooming^as the spring. Fielding. Young and gay as new- 
born spring. Behn. Young as the infant blossoms of the 
spring, and fragrant as the odours which they bring. Durfey. 
Young and gay in beauty's bloom, like the sweet month of 
May. /. Hughes. — as April. T. Brerewood. — as the Hours. 
W. Cartwright. — as the dew. John Hamilton. — as the April 
bud. Sir W. Davenant. — as the rose-bud. Durfey. — as the 
budding rose. Behn. Young and gay as April flowers. Ibid. 
Young and pretty as an angel. W. Popple. — as Hebe. W. 
Popple, R. Lloyd, ty others. — Young like Apollo. Lansdowne. 
—as Cupid. Play, How to choose a good Wife. 



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YOUTHFUL as the morn. Beaumont $• Fletcher. — as the early- 
day. W. Cartwright. Youthful and blooming as the month 
of May. T. Betterton, in Miscellaneous Poems. — as Hebe. 



Mrs. S. Gunning. 



Z. 



JEALOUS as a dog for a bone. Jonson. 



MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS, 

SHOWING 

THE COMPARATIVE EXCELLENCE OF VARIOUS WRITERS 
IN THE ART OF DESCRIPTION. 



SUN. MORNING. DEW. 



W HEN Phoebus 'gan his glist'ring beams to shew, 
And Dame Aurora with most joyful cheere 
The herbs and flowers did moisten with her dew, 
And hung her silver drops like pearles fine 
On every bush which 'gainst the sun did shine, 
And shew themselves so orient and so cleare 
On every valley, hill, and pleasant green, 
In morning when the crimson clouds appear, 
And in the skies most beautiful are seen, 
Until the heat of Phoebus' glist'ring beams 
Dries up their moisture with his fiery streames. 

Lidgate. 

Dame Aurora beautiful and bright, 

Began her face out of the East to shew, 

And cast on herbs and flowers her silver dew. 

Ibid. 






DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

fair Aurora with her silver showers, 

The fragrant roses had begun to wet, 

And all bedewed the blooming silver flowers, 

As lilies, cowslips, and sweet margaret ; 

And made them spread their leaves both fresh and bright, 

Which had been closed up by glooming night. 

Lidgate. 

See Aurora puts on her crimson blush, 
And with resplendent rays gilds o'er the top 
Of yon aspiring hill ! — the pearly dew 
Hangs on the rose-bud's cheek, and knowing it 
Must be anon exhaled, for sorrow shrinks 
Itself into a tear. 

Lewis Sharp, 1640. 

The lyric larks practise their sweetest strain, 
Aurora's early blush to entertain. 

Poole's Parnassus. 

The early lark mounts from the sullen earth, 
And sings her hymns to welcome in the light. 



Ibid. 



The ruddy horses of the rosy Morn 
Out of the eastern gates had newly borne 
Their blushing mistress in her golden chair, 
Spreading new light throughout our hemisphere. 



The Morning now in colours richly dight, 
Stepp'd o'er the Eastern thresholds. 



Now Morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime 
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 



Milton. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

When the next morning had renew'd the day, 
And the early twilight now had chas'd away 
The pride of Night, and made her lay aside 
Her spangled robes, the lily-handed Morn 
Saw Phcebus stealing dew from Ceres' corn. 

Poole's Parnassus. 



The Morning sitting in a throne of gold 
Surveyed the earth. 



Ibid. 



The cheerful Lady of the Light, 

Clad in her saffron robe, 
Dispers'd her beams through ev'ry part 

Of the enflower'd globe. 

Ibid. 

Aurora rose, and from her orient tresses 
Threw the light. 

Ibid. 

Then Aurora richly dight 
In an azure mantle fair, 
Fring'd about with silver bright ; 
Pearl dews dropping through the air ; 
Hung the gate with golden tissues, 
Where Hyperion's chariot issues. 

Ibid. 

Now was the eastern sky-dyed purple spread 
For fair Aurora's radiant feet to tread, 
She mounts serene, and with mild dawning light 
Smiles on the low'ring dusky face of night. 

Blachmore. 

Delightful morn ! sweet blossom of the day ! 
And thou, O sun, by whom the distant hills 






DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

With lustre bright are ting'd — how sweet your reign ! 
While in the flow'ry meads the lambkins sport. — 
Behold the lark already on the wing 
Scarce gives the sun-beams time to light the earth, 
So eager to salute the new-born day ! 

David Ogborne. 

But now the morn rose from her Phrygian cell, 

And wiping her dew'd locks she did expel 

The night's cold darkness, blushing on the sun 

That follows her. Bright Lucifer was one 

O' the last that wooes her with his parting glances, 

But now resigns the sky. 

Translation of Statius Thebaid. 1649. 

Now opening morn the orient decks with red, 
And fair Aurora leaves Tithonus' bed ; 
Soft vernal gales dispense a sweet perfume, 
And smiling Flora wantons in her bloom ; 
In verdant vesture fields and trees appear : 
Unnumber'd beauties paint the genial year ; 
While choral lays from all the feather'd train 
Swell the sweet concert and delight the plain. 

W. Mavor. 

The morn returns, the face of rising day 
Shines beauty on the world — the genial flow'rs 
Shake the damp load of nightly dews away 
And open to the sun — all nature smiles — 
The whole creation feels the influence 
Of the diffusive joy. 

W. Havard. 

The morn 

Rises upon my thoughts, her silver hand 
With her fair pencil strikes the darkness out, 
And paints the glorious face of day. 

Ibid. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

How glorious is the morn ! how sweet the air 
Perfum'd with fragrant odours that the sun 
Exhaleth from the flowers of the earth ! 
Hark ! how the birds, those warbling choristers, 
Do strain their pretty throats, and sweetly sing 
Glad hymns to him, who made this glorious light. 

William Harrison. 

Fair rob'd Aurora from the bright'ning East 
Began her roseate beauties to display, 
Scatt'ring refulgence from her radiant breast, 
And wide unbarr'd the golden gates of day. 

The Shamrock. 

Now breaks the morn — the light of heaven 
To sleeping nature life has given ; 
The glorious orb, its genial source, 
Is on his grand diurnal course ; 
The dew, that stole in silent hour 
To lend its soft refreshing power 
To nature, parch'd by the bright ray 
That gives the life and glare to day, 
Now flies in vapour from the beam 
That scares it with refulgent gleam, 
But as it rolls away on wind 
It leaves some sparkling pearls behind ; 
As pure, — as pensive, — and as clear, 
As falls the bosom's warmest tear, 
When o'er some dear, lamented dead, 
The silent — mournful gem is shed. 

The Cossack, a Poem, by Ely. 1815. 

The morning breaketh forth in crimson, and the beauteous 
flowers of the field spread wide their odorous cups to drink the 
blooming influence of the rising genial sun. 

George Smith Green. 
R 






DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

The sky was clear, the air was still, 
The sun had gilt the eastern hill ; 
The silver dews impearl'd the ground, 
And nature breath'd her fragrance round ; 
The wild musicians of the grove, 
Attun'd their little songs to love, 
And ev'ry throat from ev'ry spray, 
With rapture hail'd the rising day. 

The Shamrock. 

Behold the ocean in a calm subside, 
Grey on the rocks the morning cheers the sight, 
Soon will the sun glow in his eastern pride, 
Diffusing round a trembling flood of light. 

W. Churchey. 

The opening eye-lids of the dawn, 
A smiling glance threw o'er the lawn, 
Where dew-drops glitter'd in the ray, 
And gossamers all sparkling lay 
Like veil bespangled all with gold, 
And thrown in many a careless fold 
O'er the fair head of damsel gay, 
To hide her beauties from the day. 

Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a Poem. 

'Twas morning, and the glorious sun was risen 
From his bright chamber in the rosy East, 
Bursting, as if with joy, his misty prison, 
To shine upon the ocean's sparkling breast ; 
The last star feebly twinkled in the West : 
A light breeze rippled o'er the dancing sea. 

Ada, a Poem, by M.A. Browne. 

Soft the smile 

Of orient morn, and sweet the rustling wing 
Of Zephyr rising from the waste of flowers 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

And breathing fragrance.-^But, nor orient morn, 
Nor fragrant Zephyr, nor Arabian climes, 
Nor gilded ceilings, can relieve the soul 
Pining in thraldom. 

TV. Richardson. 

.... Methinks I see the sun, 
Eternal painter, now begin to rise 
And limn the heavens in vermilion dye, 
And having dipt his pencil aptly fram'd 
Already in the colour of the morn, 
With various temper he doth mix in one 
Darkness and light. 

Prologue to Phillis of Scyros, old Play. 1655. 

The sun doth rise, and shuts the lids of all heaven's lesser 
eyes. 

Poole's Parnassus. 

The illustrious officer of day 

First worshipp'd in the East, 'gins to display 

The glory of his beams ; then buds unfold 

Their chary leaves, each dew-drown'd marigold 

Insensibly doth stir itself and spread ; 

Each violet lifts up his pensive head. 

Ibid. 

The sun through fleecy clouds a silver train 

Shoots o'er the shining level of the main, 

Mild yet majestic ; and through earth renown'd, 

He reigns, diffusing radiant bliss around ; 

Such boundless good his beams disperse abroad, 

No wonder Heathens take him for a god. 

TV. Churchey. 

Lo ! when thy orient beams arise, 
And dissipate the gloom of night, 
R 2 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Thy milder glories spreading through the skies, 

Shoot from the east thy morning light 

O'er all the dew-bespangled plain, 

And the sheen level of th' expanded main : 

But when thy fervent fulgency declines, 

And thy broad beam with warming lustre shines, 

Less bright tho' not less glorious, sinks away 

Into the western main thy crimson ray, 

Fringing first with streaks of gold 

The edges of yon fleecy cloud, 

As if thy skirts we did behold 

Blazing down the western road. 

l r W. Churchey. 

Behold the ocean in a calm subside, 
Grey on the rocks the morning cheers the sight : 
Soon will the sun glow in his eastern pride, 
Diffusing round a trembling flood of light. 

Ibid. 

LET THERE BE LIGHT ! 

Bursting to being rose the golden ray, 
And instant, streaming through th' admiring fields 
Of nature, brighter and more bright appear'd 
All-glorious, till resistless splendour beam'd 
In mild repose within the dark blue vault. 

George Tonmsend. 

Now fades the night, and in the horizon low 

The first bright streaks that tint the morning, glow. 

— The sun now rises as Aurora flies, 

And paints with thousand hues the golden skies ; 

Drinks the moist vapours with his flaming ray, 

And pours from heav'n the blazing floods of day. 

Lucien Bonaparte's Charlemagne translated. 

Oft at the break of morn the north wind pours 
Its rage, announcing tempest as it roars ; 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

The dreadful blast that congregates the clouds, 
With threat'ning gloom the broad horizon shrouds : 
The wary pilot, seiz'd with inward fright, 
Wide o'er the sea extends his watchful sight 
That dreads the storm : when lo ! the orb of day 
Bursts on the firmament with sudden ray, 
Dissolves the vapours, fires the ethereal plain, 
And calms the tumults of the billowy main. 

Luc'ten Bonaparte's Charlemagne translated. 

And you, dear daughters of the humid air, 
Begotten by the influence of the moon, 
You fruitful nourishers of herbs and flowers, — 
Fresh morning dews, — now shut your silver urns, 
For now the fields have satisfied their thirst, 
And meads have drunk their fill. 

Prologue to Phillis of Scyros. 

Gently-falling pearly dew, 
Liquid diamonds of the morn, 
Which various glist'ring to the view, 
Pendant from the leaf or thorn, 
The pomp of nature's dress declare, 
And make the morning's self more fair. 

Paraphrase on the Song of The Three Children. 

All wan and shiv'ring in the leafless glade, 
The sad anemone reclined her head, 
Grief on her cheeks had paled the roseate hue, 
And her sweet eye-lids dropp'd with pearly dew. 

Darwin. 

The pearly dews which youthful May 
Scatters before the rising day. 

Poole's Parnassus. 

Gems which adorn the beauteous tresses of the weeping morn. 

Ibid. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

O, beauteous regent of the night, 
In haste withdraw thy silver beam ! 
For see, with gleams of crimson light 
The dawn has ting'd yon eastern stream. 

Son of the morn ! cerulean fire ! 
Celestial gem of purest ray ! 
O bid yon rear of night retire, 
And usher in the golden day. 

And swiftly through the yielding air 
On silent plumes, ye young hours, glide, 
And to Aurora's bow'r repair, 
To dress her up in purple pride. 

See, where she springs from Tithon's bed, 
Her op'ning eye -lids joy diffuse, 
Sweet rosy smiles her cheeks o'erspread, 
Her tresses drop with tepid dews. 

See jocund morn her gates unfold, 
And nature gratulates the sight, 
And now, too gorgeous to behold, 
Proceeds the imperial lord of light. 



Thomas Pearson. 



DAY. NIGHT. MOON. STARS. 

as when the sun 

Mounts up Olympus' hill, the spangled lights 
Shrink in their beams and disappear till night 
Calls forth her ornaments. 

John Bancroft. 1679. 

For when the sun, rich father of the day, 
Eye of the world, king of the spangled vale, 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES, 

Had run the circuit of the horizon, 

And that Arctophylax, the night's bright star, 

Had brought fair Luna from the purpled main, 

To lend her light to weary travellers, — 

Then 'twas my chance to arrive at Osrick's house. 

Old Play, Knack to know a Knave. 1594. 

...... What a sweet thing is night ! 

No whisp'ring but of leaves on which the breath 
Of heaven plays music to the birds that slumber. 

/. Shirley. 
Wherefore as soon as Phoebus fair, 
Dame Luna's light and stars did stain, 
And burning in the fiery chair 
His startling steeds haled forth amain, 
The Earl then call'd his council sage — 

Poem, Battle of Floddon. 

The flush that glow'd along the western sky, 
Has sunk beneath its purple canopy ; 
And night, with stealthy pace her dark coursers 
Leads up the steep ascent of heav'n, — e'en now 
Her harbinger, the moon, with crescent faint 
Precedes her silent march— 

Author of The Times, a Poem. 

Lo ! on the verge of yonder fleecy cloud, 
How silent glides the silver queen of night, 
Her gentle radiance gleaming through the void, 
Piercing the shade of yon embow'ring grove. 
Methinks the hand of ever-bounteous Nature 
O'er the still face of night such beauties pours, 
That with tranquillity inspire the mind, 
Infusing peaceful joy that soothes the soul. 

Herminius 8$ Espasia, by Hart. 

But see the sun has set, and now to bless 
With quietness and beauty, softer far 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Than that of day, with pensive tenderness 
As best befits the scene, the evening star 
Lights up its trembling lamp, to greet pale Cynthia's car. 

Bernard Barton. 

It must be late, 

For lo ! the moon, which only seem'd to tip, 
The summits of the grove, advanc'd in glory, 
Now pours a silver deluge o'er the night 
Near mounted to her noon. 

W. Thompson. 

Thou moon, fair regent of the lonely hours, 

Bright walking through mid heaven, whose lovely smiles 

Renew the day, who deck'st with silver robe 

The Ethiop night, as through mid heaven thou walk'st 

Pale shining — to the lonely hours confess — 

Confess for ever to each conscious night 

Thy architect divine. 

Miscellany of Poems, by J. Husbands. 

Cynthia, companion of the Night, 

With shining brand lightening his ebon car, 
Whose axle-tree was jet enchas'd with stars, 
And roof with shining ravens' feathers ceil'd. 

George Peele. 

Dark came the evening on, and the pale moon 
Now faintly glimmering through a wintry cloud, 
Shed her dim horrors o'er the shadowy earth. 

Cumberland. 

Now eve crept silent on, and threw her 

Dusky veil o'er nature's face. Ibid. 

nor would I fail 

At dewy eve to wander, when the sun 
To his pale sister's milder rule resigns 
The cloudless skies, who as she rises spreads 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Her silver beams, and the snow-mantled tops 

Of yonder mountains with a yellow hue 

Faint tinges, one expanded sheet of light 

Diffusing. George Keate. 

And as the moon with borrow'd light displays 
Reflected beams, sent from the sun's bright rays ; 
So from the Sun of Righteousness divine, 
The saints with perfect comeliness do shine. 

Old Play, Youth's Comedy. 

How calm this hour ! from that thin fleecy cloud, 
Like a fair virgin veil'd, the moon looks out 
With such serene and sweet benignity 
That night unknits his gloomy brows and smiles. 

Play, Sulieman. 

How calm and placid is this scene ! 
The moon from her high tabernacle bright 
With burnish'd silver, looks directly down 
On the smooth bosom of th' unruffled lake, 
That far and wide reflects the radiant blaze. 
How calm and how serene the sky ! 

The Indians, a Tragedy. 

Now night's pale queen in majesty serene, 
With silver radiance ting'd the solemn scene ; 
The light that trembling gilds the starry plain, 
Stream'd o'er the rocks and far illumin'd main. 

John Ogilvie. 

Rising above the silent wood, 
Night's regent pour'd a silver flood, 
And bright her glitt'ring spangles fell 
On many a sleeping floweret's bell. 

Miss Holford's Margaret of Anjou, a Poem. 



DESCRIPTIVE -PASSAGES. 



The moon diffuses peaceful light, 

; lustre 

John Bidlake. 



And o'er the waves her trembling lustre 



Now plays the silver moon upon the sea, 
And all the train of twinkling stars adorn 
The hollow compass of our heaven's sphere. 

Play, Knack to know an Honest Man. 

The silver queen of night 

Arose in full-orb'd lustre, and began 

Her path majestic through the blue serene, 

And threw her silver light o'er half the world. 

George Townsend. 

O thou meek orb ! that stealing o'er the dale 
Cheer'st with thy modest beams the noon of night, 
On the smooth lake diffusing silv'ry light 
Sublimely still, and beautifully pale. 

Mary Robinson. 

fair Venus shines 

Even in the eye of day, with sweetest beam 
Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood 
Of soften'd radiance from her dewy locks. 
The shadows spread apace — while meeken'd eve, 
Her cheek yet warm with blushes, slow retires 
Through the Hesperian gardens of the West, 
And shuts the gates of day. 

A. L. A thin. 

The moon all-lovely, from her clouded veil, 
Soft gliding, lifts her silvery lamp on high ; 
The little stars their twinkling rays conceal, 
And to their dens the powers of darkness fly. 
So, — when the beams of heavenly comfort shine, 
Life's fairy visions faintly glide away ; 






DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

The train of Anguish fly her light divine, 
That yields the faithful soul eternal day. 

Charles Fox. 

All round was still and calm : the noon of night 
Was fast approaching : up the unclouded sky 
The glorious moon pursued her path of light, 
And shed her silvery splendour far and nigh. 
No sound, save of the night-wind's gentlest sigh, 
Could reach the ear, and that so softly blew, 
It scarcely stirr'd in sweeping lightly by, 
The acacia's airy foliage. 

Bernard Barton. 



TIME. 

See how Time hath turned his restless wheel about, and made 
the silver moon and heaven's bright eye gallop the zodiack 
and end the year ! 

George Peele. 



SUMMER. 

Now Winter's bleak and gloomy reign is o'er, 
Vanish'd its clouds — hush'd its tempestuous roar ; 
Now Summer in soft whisp'ring zephyrs woos, 
And Nature wakes refresh'd with moistening dews ; 
Reveals the beauties she conceal'd from sight, 
And from beneath her veil bursts into light. 
Glad Contemplation owns the genial pow'r, 
And sees a Deity in ev'ry flow'r. 

The Times, a Poem, 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 



AUTUMN. 



Now glowing Autumn spreads 

Her rainbow tints o'er rip'ning fields and meads. 
The orb of day, magnificently bright, 
Pours o'er the earth a flood of golden light. 

The Times , a Poem. 



BLUSHING. 

Sometime the blood down to her heart did fall, 

And up again into her face would rise : 

Sometime she blush'd, sometime she shewed pale, 

Now look'd she down, then cast she up her eyes ; 

Yet still among to beautify her colour 

The fragrant rose was mix'd with lily flower, 

And though the rose would sometimes seem to fleet, 

Yet did the lily hold her wonted place, 

Till Nature gave them means again to meet, 

And shew alike within her comely face. 

Lidgate. 

She blush'd — against her will the red 

Flush'd in her cheeks, and thence as quickly fled. 
E'en so the purple morning paints the skies, 
And so they whiten at the sun's uprise. 

George Sandys. 

How heavenly is the blush of beauty, when it beams through 
a tear shed by filial affection. 

The World, a Comedy. 

Her cheeks would glow with roses deep as those 
Which glister in the eastern fields of heaven, 
And shed the purple morning from their blushes. 

W. Thompson. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 



- . This sweet bud, 

This blossom of the morning, where like pearls 
There hang the brilliant dew-drops, this soft flower 
Just peeping through its leaves, then shrinking back 



At its own beauties blushing. 



John Dillon. 



.... The modest princess blush'd and smil'd 
Like to a clear and rosy eventide. 

John Dames. 

Well does that vermeil tint become thy maiden cheek, for it 
is the soft test of virgin purity. 

Play, Selim fy Zuleika. 



EYES. 

Hear, parent sun ! bright eye and monarch of the world. 

Peter Motteux. 

See the morning star breaks from the east to tell the world her 
great eye is awaked. 

Lewis Machin. 

Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn veiled heaven's glo- 
rious eye. 

Michael Drayton. 

The sun itself, the eye of the world, shall never be conscious 
to my actions. 

Dr. Robert South. 

The Sun is called by Gower, the world's eye ; — by P. Massin- 
ger, the glorious eye of heaven ; — by John Kirk, the golden eye of 
day ; — by Francis Quarles, the refulgent eye of heaven ; — by 
Robert Green, the eye of day ; — by William Hamilton, the 
world's bright radiant eye. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

What needs a tongue to such a speaking eye, that more per- 
suades than winning oratory. 

Old Play, Edward the Third. 

Your eye discourses with more rhetoric than all the gilded 
tongues of orators. Shakerly Marmion. 

Her sparkling eye is like the morning star. 

Joshua Sylvester. 

Her eyes steal their quick lustre from the morning's beams. 

Lovibond. 

Canst thou with ease resign that heaven of beauty, 
And give those eyes — bright rivals of the morn — 
Those brilliant orbs that beam a fairer day, 
To light a rival to the shrine of love ? 

Herminius ty Espasia, by Hart. 

I dare not look upon her eyes, where wronged love sits like 
the basilisk. Nathaniel Field. 

Her eyes sparkling with great ire, resembled properly two 
stars of the night, that shoot forth their brightness upon the earth 
when all things be in silence. 

Palace of Pleasure, by William Painter. 

The bird of night can sooner bear the sun, 
Than thou the influence of her eyes, — 
But with a guilty and a downcast look, 
Thou art compell'd to own that thou art 
By a superior and diviner being aw'd. 

John Dennis. 

Had ever eyes such radiance ! how meek orb'd 
They melt beneath the pearl distilling lids, 
Whose shady lashes half impede their beams, 
And seem departing suns 'twixt dripping boughs. 

Bertie Greatheed. 






DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Beauty gilds the blushing morn, 
Hangs the dew-drop on the thorn, 
Paints the rose in richest bloom, 
Fills the air with sweet perfume. 

But sweet perfume, 

Nor rose in bloom, 

Nor dew-drop bright, 

Nor morning light, 

In charms can vie, 

With woman's eye. 
In woman's eye we raptur'd view, 
Beauty at once, and pleasure too. 



TEARS. 

With that, the water in her eie 
Arose, that she ne might it stoppe ; 
And as men sene the dew bedroppe 
The leves and the floures eke, 
Right so upon her white cheke 
The wofull salt teres felle. 



John Kelly. 



Gower 



And with the tears that out her eye did 'still, 
She did bedew her sad and mournful weed, 
And with her hands her golden hair that spread 
Abroad upon her back did tear and break, 
And therewithal her fresh and roseate hue 
That mixed was with lilies in her cheeks, 
With weeping and lamenting sore did shew 
Like unto herbs and fragrant flowers sweet 
In April that with pleasant dews are wet. 

Lid gate. 

Let fall the pearly drops from her fair lamps of light. 

Spenser. 



DESCRIPTIVE FASSAGES. 

Trickling tears, that like two orient pearls did purely shine 
upon her snowy cheek. 

Spenser. 

Her eyes distilled such abundance of tears as stopped the pas- 
sage of her plaints, and made her seem a more than second Niobe 
bewailing her loss under the form of a weeping flint. 

Greene's Arcadia. 

I saw a cloud hang on that royal brow, 
And marks of sorrow in your lovely eyes, 
Down your rosy cheeks trac'd pearly showers, 
Which spoke the discontent that lodg'd within. 

Zelmane. 

At first she wept ; — and as we see the sun 

Shine through a shower, so look'd her beauteous eyes, 

Casting forth light and tears together. 

George Granville Lord Lansdowne. 

Robb'd of the parent, o'er his funeral bier 

We shed what nature prompts — the tender tear. 

John Ogilvie. 

Her tears (beauty's expressive rhetoric) 
Like drops of weeping roses from the still, 
In silence trickle from her melting eyes ; 
Yet now and then bursts forth a soft complaint, 
Soft as the murmur of the bubbling brook. 

Benjamin Martyn. 

How beautiful she looks ! e'en grief becomes her ! 
Grief reigns with silent pleasure in her face, 
As if delighted to be drest in beauty. 
Lovely Cleone ! wherefore weeps my fair ? 
Joy shall again unveil those shadow'd eyes, 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Shall like the sun drive hence those clouds of sorrow, 
The pride of nature opening to our view. 

B. Martyn. 

From the heart that feels my warning, 
Grateful are the tears that flow, 
Pearly drops the flowers adorning, 
Grace not more the dewy morning, 
Nor such blessings can bestow. 

The Triumph of Time and Truth, an Oratorio. 

Unvalued here 

Such tears may fall ; but know, each tear will prove 
A precious pearl in heaven above. 

Ibid. 

Thou weep'st I see — there can no richer pearls add lustre to 
a virgin's face than tears which are distilled for expiation of a 
sin-sick soul. 

Old Play, St. Cecily. 

Tears hang on her neck more beautiful than strings of orient 
pearl. 

John Banks. 

She weeps — the tears like oriental pearls drop from her eyes. 

Carlell. 

The precious dew falls from those suns above — 
O see, a chain of pearls hangs on those lids ! 

Settle. 

For in your eye I spied a pearl of pity. 

W. Rowley. 

Meek pity's pearl oft started in his eye. 

Penrose. 

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DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Bright in thy sorrows, on whom ev'ry tear 
Sits like a wealthy diamond, and inherits 
A starry lustre from the eye that shed it. 

James Shirley. 

And at my farewell many innocent tears 
Witness'd her sorrow, clear as April weeps 
Into the bosom of the spring. 

Ibid. 

Witness all those dewy tears which as pearl, or diamond- 
like, swell upon her blushing cheek. 

W. Habington. 

In tears those eyes cast forth a greater lustre than sparkling 
rocks of diamonds inclosed in swelling seas of pearl. 

Chapman. 

See how those tears sprung from her eye, 
Like pearls enchased on rubies, lie ! 

John Dancer. 

Look how dark sorrow 's beautified — how comely she 's in her 
tears ; — they sit upon her cheeks like Erythrean pearls enchased 
on grounds of true vermilion ! 

Old Play, Bastard. 1652. 

Why dost thou stain thy cheeks, 

Those rosy beds, with this unseemly dew ? 

Shake off those tears. 

Old Play, Grim, the Collier of Croydon. 

Such a pearl as this is 

(Slipt from Aurora's dewy breast) 

The rose-bud's sweet lip kisses. 

Crashaw. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

these tears of pearly dew 

That drop by drop steal from thy languid eyes, 
Silently speak the passion of thy soul. 

Charles Johnson. 

See how nature 'gins to work — 

And how salt tears, like drops of pearly dew, 

Fall from his eyes, as sorrowing his offence. 

Old Play, Knack to know a Knave. 

O see the pearled dew drops from her eyes ! 

Anthony Brewer. 

Why drops this pearly dew ? 

Now blushing like Aurora, the warm blood 
Crimsons thy cheek, now pale as Cynthia's rays. 

C. Johnson. 

She ceased not from streaming forth rivulets of tears, that 

hung on her cheeks like the drops of pearled dew upon the riches 

of Flora. 

Greene's Arcadia. 

Behold my tears ! — oh, think them pearled drops distilled 

from the heart ! 

Thomas Heywood. 

Motionless 

She sits, with eyes fix'd as if riveted 

To earth, while tears insensibly steal down 

Her pensive cheeks, which look like weeping dew, 

Fallen on the statue of despair. 

Charles Macklin. 

Her chaste sighs beget as sweet a dew 

As that of May. 

Thomas Rawlins. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Silence at first — then tears — bright drops like May-morn 
dews that fall from the sweet blossomed thorn. 

Hall Hartson. 

I shall deserve those tears, that shew like dew upon the morn- 
ing's cheek. 

Sir W. Davenant. 

Why dost thou weep ? — Why like distilling roses waste, dis- 
solving thus thy sweetness to a dew ? 

Sir W. Davenant) Christopher Bullock. 

Tears falling from her eyes as silently as dews in dead of 
night. 

Dryden. 

Distil mine eyes into a dew. 

Old Play, Fatal Union. 

Tears are the eye's pellucid dews, that fall 
At Pity's summons, or at Mercy's call. 

Poetical Calendar. 

No friendly voice speaks comfort to her soul, 
Nor soft-eyed Pity drops a melting tear. 

Robert Glynn. 

Yet far sublimer tasks his genius knew, — 
'Twas his to grace the cheek with pity's dew. 

George Keate. 

. . Wherefore are thy eyes cast down ? Oh why 
Loaden with heavy waters do they droop ? 

C. Johnson. 

When beauty weeps, 'tis like the sun eclips'd, 
It spreads a cloud of terror all around, 
And stamps in ev'ry heart the dismal woe. 

Charles Beckingham. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Such the maiden gem 
By the wanton spring put on, 
Peeps from her parent stem, 
And blushes on the wat'ry sun. 

Crashaw. 

Lo ! at the portal stands the fair Ismene, 
Tears in her lovely eyes, a cloud of grief 
Sits on her brow, wetting her beauteous cheek 
With pious sorrow for a sister's fate. 

Francklin's Sophocles. 

.... She came weeping forth 
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers 
That labour to o'ercome the cloud that loads 'em. 

Otway. 

Junia in tears ! So shines an April sun, 

And so the precious dew that drops on flowers 

Steals down unheeded by the vulgar eye. 

Sheffield DuJce of Buckingham. 

The pearly tears fell from her bright eyes like April dew- 
drops. 

MicMe. 

The pearly tear-drop rushing in her eye as morning dew hangs 
trembling on the rose. 

Ibid. 

Tears were trembling in her fair blue eyes like drops that 
linger on the violet. 

L. E. Landon. 

She weeps, but like the morning dew upon the rose, 
Her beauty is but heighten'd by her tears. 

Panthea, a Tragedy. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

Like some dew-spangled flower thou showest more lovely in 
thy tears. 

Author of The Times, a Poem. 

She comes — 

Her eyes weigh'd down by tears — as morning dews 
Sit heavy on the tulip's golden round, 
And stoop its burthen'd tenderness to earth. 

G. Soane. 

When moon-light waves 
Are sparkling bright 
With broken rays 
Of soften'd light, 
Like those from eyes 
Of one that 's dear 
When beaming through 
Affection's tear, — 
'Tis sweet to rove, 
And think of love. 

Daniel Terry. 

The tear of sensibility on the cheek of a beautiful woman, 
like the dew-drop of heaven on its favourite rose, sheds new 
sweetness where all was sweet before. 

Edward Morris. 

Tears stain her lovely cheek, — as oft we view 
The rose and lily wet with morning dew. 

Hoole's Ariosto. 

The streaming tears seemed like the shining rays of the clear 

sun, or heaps of orient pearls. 

Doyne's Tasso. 

Her fair cheeks covered with those living dews, seemed like 

the white and like the purple rose if they are sprinkled by a 

dewy cloud. 

Ibid. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 



A flowing shower from her twin orbs of light all drown the 

faded roses of her cheeks. 

Elkanah Settle. 



Tears trickle down thy cheeks like dew distilling from the 
full-blown rose. 

Fielding. 

Tears make her cheek feel like a damask rose wet with cold 
evening dew. 

Fenton. 

She weeps, and down her crimson cheek 
The pearly tears descend like morning dew 
Upon the new-blown rose. 

James Ralph. 

Tears hang upon his cheeks like morning dews on roses. 

N. Lee. 

A stealing shower of tears rolled down her cheeks, like dew- 
drops trickling o'er the bloom of roses. 

Cibber. 

Upon those lips (the sweet fresh buds of youth) 
The holy dew of prayer lies like pearl 
Dropt from the opening eye-lids of the morn 
Upon the bashful rose. 

Old Play, Game of Chess. 

Those tears appear like crystal dew upon the blushing rose. 

Thomas Ford. 

Tears stood on her cheeks as doth the honey-dew upon a ga- 
ther'd lily almost wither'd. 

Shafcespear. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

On each pallid cheek a single tear hung quivering like early 
dew-drops on the sickening lily. 

Hugh Kelly. 

So looks the lily after a shower, while drops of rain run gently 
down its silken leaves, and gather sweetness as they pass. 

Fit 



See where she comes, like lilies weeping with the morning 
dew, which though it wets, yet sullies not their beauty. 

Centlivre. 

How through her tears with pale and trembling radiance the 
eye of beauty shines, and lights her sorrows. 

Philip Francis. 

how lovely in her tears ! 

"What beams her beauty darts through clouds of woe \ 
So Venus look'd when wet with silver drops 
Above the floods she rais'd her shining head, 
Gilded the waves, and charm'cl the wond'ring gods. 

Robert Owen. 

Subdue this silent languishment, these tears — 
Which vainly rising to your eye-lids, fall 
Back on the heart, as wanting power to flow. 

Robert Merry. 

Whose hearts are ready at Humanity's soft call to drop the 

tear. 

W. Mason. 

.... they are the tears Humanity lets fall 
When soft-eyed Beauty dies — untimely slain. 

Murphy. 

Why are you pale ? — why do the gushing tears 
Blot the majestic beauty of your face ? 

Lillo. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

He paus'd and hung his head to hide 
Parental fondness' gushing tide. 

Mary R. Mitford. 

His sad complexion wears Grief's mourning livery — he is 
clothed in tears. 

John Day. 

Believe me, fair one, these same falling tears 
Adorn thee more than beauty's brightest bloom. 

W, Hawkins. 

From these pearly eyes should there fall down more tears of 
penitence than the clouds drop to purchase a new spring, I could 
not be forgiven. 

Old Play, Muleasses. 

See the signs of grace appear, 
See the soft relenting tear 
Trickling at sweet mercy's call ! 
Catch it, angels, ere it fall ! 
And let the heart-sent off'ring rise 
Heav'n's best accepted sacrifice. 

Dr. Brown. 



Meek-ey'd compassion, fav'rite of heav'n, 
By beaming cherubin of mercy driv'n, — 
May the mild radiance of thy silver car 
Shine ever foremost in the ranks of war. 
So shall the generous tear at thy behest, 
Melt the stern nature of the warrior's breast, 
Snatch'd from the jaws of death, the victim save, 
And pity heal the wounds that valour gave. 

The Sovereign, a Poem, by C. S. Pybus. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

When you was gone — as in a saffron morn, 
When orient beams first gild the eastern sky, 
The dewy spangles wet the blushing rose, 
Till the sun's rays exhale them quite away ; 
So pearly tears, th' effect of smother'd grief, 
Stole from her eyes, and bath'd her lovely face, 
Until my promise to reconcile you to her 
Warm'd her with comfort, and so dried them up. 

0. S. Wandesford. 

He kiss'd the cold unconscious face, 
While down his manly cheek apace 
The rapid rain-drop flows ; 
Nor shame, nor apathy, nor pride, 
Might then forbid the briny tide, 
Uncheck'd it trickles down his cheeks, — 
'Tis still in tears that transport speaks ! 
With soothing, pleading voice he cries, 
Tho' smother'd half with stifling sighs, 
My Geraldine, revive ! — sweet sister, ope thine eyes. 
Margaret of Anjou, a Poem, by Miss Holford. 

She heard him not, nor haply knew 

That on her pale cheek fell the gentle dew 
Of the soul's fountain from his streaming eyes, 
To love and truth a hallo w'd sacrifice. 

James Bird. 

He slept — yet sorrow at his heart 

E'en as he slept seem'd busy still, 

The sudden, strong convulsive start, 

The smother'd groan, and shudd'ring thrill, 

Declar'd that gentle sleep in vain 

Would lighten Misery's galling chain : 

As Geraldine beside him stood, 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

And gaz'd upon the noble wreck 
Of all that once was fair and good, 
Her pitying eyes in rapid flood 
Bedew'd her brother's livid cheek, 
Then kneeling on the verdant sod, 
She lifted up her soul to God. 

Margaret of Anjou, a Poem. 

Say, lovely maid, whence springs the grief that sits 

So heavy on thee, as the mildews hang 

Upon the bells of flow'rs to blight their bloom. 

Thomas Cooke. 



TO A LADY WEEPING. 

When I beheld thy blue eye shine 
Thro' the bright drop that pity drew, 
I saw beneath those tears of thine, 
A blue-eyed violet bath'd in dew. 

The violet ever scents the gale, 
Its hues adorn the fairest wreath, 
But sweetest thro' a dewy veil 
Its colours glow, its odours breathe. 

And thus thy charms in brightness rise, 
When Wit and Pleasure round thee play, 
When Mirth sits smiling in thine eyes, 
Who but admires their sprightly ray ? 
But when thro' Pity's flood they gleam, 
Who but must love their soften'd beam ? 

Specimens of Arabian Poetry > by J. D. Carlyle. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 



WEEPING FOR JOY. 



Have you beheld how an April shower 

Sends down her hasty bubbles, and then stops, 

Then storms afresh 1 through whose transparent drops 

The unobscur'd lamp of heaven conveys 

The brighter glory of his sparkling rays ; — 

Even so, upon her blushing cheeks resided 

A mix'd aspect 'twixt smiles and tears divided. 

Poole's Parnassus. 



A PASTORAL OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 

Tune on, my pipe, the praises of my love, 
And midst thy oaten harmony recount 
How fair she is that makes thy music mount, 
And ev'ry string of thy heart's harp to move. 

Shall I compare her form unto the sphere 
Whence sun-bright Venus vaunts her silver shine 1 
Ah ! more than that by just compare is thine, 
Whose crystal looks the cloudy heavens do clear. 

How oft have I descending Titan seen 
His burning locks couch in the sea queen's lap, 
And beauteous Thetis his red body wrap 
In wat'ry robes as he her lord had been. 

When as my nymph, impatient of the night, 
Bade bright Astraeus with his train give place, 
While she led forth the day with her fair face, 
And lent each star a more than Delian light. 

Not Jove or Nature (should they both agree 
To make a woman of the firmament 
Of his mixt purity) could e'er invent 
A sky-born form so beautiful as she. 

Robert Greene's Arcadia. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 

A LULLABY OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, 
When thou art old there 's griefe enough for thee. 

Mother's wagge, prettie boy, 

Father's sorrow, father's joy ; 

When thy father first did see 

Such a boy by him and me, 

He was glad, I was woe, 

Fortune changde made him so, 

When he had left his prettie boy, 

Last his sorrow, first his joy. 

Weepe not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, 
When thou art old there 's griefe enough for thee. 

Streaming teares that never stint, 

Like pearle drops from a flint, 

Fell by course from his eies, 

That one another's place supplies ; 

Thus he grieved in every part, 

Teares of bloud fell from his heart, 

When he left his prettie boy, 

Father's sorrow, father's joy. 

Weepe not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, 
When thou art old there 's griefe enough for thee. 

The wanton smilde, father wept, 

Mother cride, babie lept, 

More he crownde, more he cride, 

Nature could not sorrow hide, 

He must goe, he must kisse 

Child and mother, babie blisse, 

For he left his prettie boy, 

Father's sorrow, father's joy. 
Weepe not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, 
When thou art old, there 's griefe enough for thee. 

Greene's Arcadia. 



DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES. 



THE SUN-FLOWER. 



The breeze that wakens with the orient dawn 

Scarce from thy bosom shakes the quiv'ring dew, 

Scarce is the dusky veil of night withdrawn, 

Ere thy fond eye expanding to the view, 

With kindling rapture meets the golden gleam 

That now ascends the sky, now floats along the stream. 

And when the burning blaze of summer noon 
Darts from the midway heav'n's ethereal height, 
Thy daring eye, broad as the rising moon, 
With transport gazes on the King of Light, 
Tho' all around thee droop the languid head, 
And all the energies of life are fled. 

Charles Fox. 



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